Competitive sports are ultimately numbers games. Whether it's a gymnast racking up points on a balance beam, a tennis player acing her opponent, or a football team scoring on a last second Hail Mary, all matches are won and lost by numbers. There are upsets, comebacks, and situations when the losing team still seems to outperform the other -- but, even then, victory distills into digits. As such, it's obvious that many sports lend themselves nicely to the type of mathematical analyses that let keen-eyed statisticians predict outcomes -- maybe even exact scores -- just by crunching a bunch of numbers. After all, that's the basis of sports betting, and it's helped baseball managers craft winning teams on a tight budget just by considering little more than batting average, runs batted in, and stolen bases.

Alan Turing's famous "Turing Test" aims to answer the question "How will we know if a machine is truly intelligent?" His elegant solution is based on a personal interview: if the interviewer can't tell if it's a man or machine, then the machine must have human level intelligence. That's a good test if the goal is to replace human intelligence with software. Here at Unanimous AI, our goal is the opposite. We aim to build software systems that amplify human intelligence, building upon our values and sensibilities rather than replacing them.

Much of popular fiction has painted Artificial Intelligence and humanity as opposing forces. AI is the clever, morally ambiguous antagonist, whilst humans are the hapless fools that created their own demise. Thanks to development and adoption, the long-standing view of the technology as inherently dangerous is changing. Despite this, AI platforms are constantly pitted against humans to test their skill. Special events are set up specifically with this in mind, for example the chess match in which Deep Blue defeated the reigning world champion, or the more recent victory of Libratus at a Rivers Casino poker tournament.

The Green Bay Packers celebrate after Mason Crosby #2 kicked a last-second field goal to defeat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game at AT&T Stadium on January 15, 2017 in Arlington, Texas. It's fair to say that traditional polling has recently had its problems with accurate forecasts, and no wonder: simply reaching lots of people to get their predictions, let alone managing that data, has never been easy. Being called a human-computer hybrid or "'artificial' artificial intelligence," UNU is a digital'hive-mind' on a hot streak for the books, which has both investors and gamblers looking on. Based on input from user "swarms," the beta-stage interactive platform has correctly predicted some of the last year's most surprising and complicated outcomes, including Sunday's last-minute "instant classic" win for the Packers, who UNU favored for the Lombardi Trophy in August, ESPN reports. The platform was launched last June by Unanimous AI, an experientially well-heeled California start-up, and harnesses users' opinions (if not their advertising eyeballs) like other topical sites: by making it social.

The Green Bay Packers celebrate after Mason Crosby #2 kicked a last-second field goal to defeat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game at AT&T Stadium on January 15, 2017 in Arlington, Texas. It's fair to say that traditional polling has recently had its problems with accurate forecasts, and no wonder: simply reaching lots of people to get their predictions, let alone managing that data, has never been easy. Being called a human-computer hybrid or "'artificial' artificial intelligence," UNU is a digital'hive-mind' on a hot streak for the books, which has both investors and gamblers looking on. Based on input from user "swarms," the beta-stage interactive platform has correctly predicted some of the last year's most surprising and complicated outcomes, including Sunday's last-minute "instant classic" win for the Packers, who UNU favored for the Lombardi Trophy in August, ESPN reports. The platform was launched last June by Unanimous AI, an experientially well-heeled California start-up, and harnesses users' opinions (if not their advertising eyeballs) like other topical sites: by making it social.

Can AI outpace the expertise of vaunted futurists like Mary Meeker or Ray Kurzweil? The artificial intelligence system called UNU is slated to answer questions tomorrow about technology and its long-term impact on humanity via a Reddit AMA ("ask me anything" interview). The same system accurately predicted Oscars winners, and the top four horses to win at the Kentucky Derby previously. UNU CEO Louis Rosenberg placed a 40 bet on the horse races and took home a 12,700 prize after putting his faith in his own technology, he told TechCrunch. UNU employs crowd wisdom to deliver its forecasts, but it differs from familiar crowdsourcing technology, surveys and polls. Instead, it uses "swarms," or the hive mind to derive forecasts and conclusions.

Unlike robotic AIs that are being built to emulate the human brain, UNU works with existing human intelligence instead of replicating it. The platform, which is open to the public, allows a group of people to converge on an answer in real time. While a swarm of seven predicted the Oscars, the Derby decision came from 20 people. For the AMA at 1 p.m. EDT today, the group that will make political predictions is expected to range from 100 to 200 people. The participants will come from UNU's user base, which has already answered fantasy football and cooking queries.

I am excited to be here today for what is a Reddit first. This will be the first AMA in history to feature an Artificial "Hive Mind" answering your questions. You might have heard about me because I've been challenged by reporters to make lots of predictions. For example, Newsweek challenged me to predict the Oscars (link) and I was 76% accurate, which beat the vast majority of professional movie critics. I'm a Swarm Intelligence that links together lots of people into a real-time system – a brain of brains – that consistently outperforms the individuals who make me up.

Unlike robotic AIs that are being built to emulate the human brain, UNU works with existing human intelligence instead of replicating it. The platform, which is open to public, allows a group of people to come together and converge on an answer in real time. While a swarm of seven predicted the Oscars, the Derby decision came from 20 people. For the AMA at 1pm ET today, the group that will make political predictions is expected to range from 100 to 200 people. The participants will come from UNU's current user base that has already answered fantasy football and cooking queries.

Unlike robotic AIs that are being built to emulate the human brain, UNU works with existing human intelligence instead of replicating it. The platform, which is open to public, allows a group of people to come together and converge on an answer in real time. While a swarm of seven predicted the Oscars, the Derby decision came from 20 people. For the AMA at 1pm ET today, the group that will make political predictions is expected to range from 100 to 200 people. The participants will come from UNU's current user base that has already answered fantasy football and cooking queries.