Can Swarm Intelligence Solve Humanity's Biggest Problems?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Artificial intelligence is all the rage, but using swarm intelligence might be the best way to solve the world's biggest problems. Dr. Louis Rosenberg is the Founder & CEO of Unanimous AI, an artificial intelligence company that amplifies human intelligence by building "hive minds" modeled after biological swarms. Learn how swarm intelligence can combine the brainpower of humans and computers to solve humanity's biggest problems.
Additional resources discussed:
- What is Swarm AI?
- Sports Predictions using Swarm Intelligence
- Business uses of Swarm Intelligence
- New hope for humans in an A.I. world | Louis Rosenberg | TEDxKC
- Waggle Dance Distances as Integrative Indicators of Seasonal Foraging ChallengesIndependence and interdependence in collective decision making: an agent-based model of nest-site choice by honeybee swarms | National Center for Biotechnology Information
- That "Old Book Smell" Is a Mix of Grass and Vanilla | Smithsonian.com
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| 0:00.0 | I'm curious, how can Swarm Intelligence change the world? |
| 0:03.6 | For groups of people who are trying to solve problems, |
| 0:06.5 | whether it's a business team or a group of people trying to plan a fantasy football league, |
| 0:12.3 | whatever the issue is from something casual to something very |
| 0:15.8 | rigorous like sales forecasting, nature tells us that swarm intelligence is a really good way of doing it. Hi, I'm Cody Gough with the problem solving Curiosity.com. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we're going to talk about Swarm Intelligence |
| 0:40.0 | and what humans can accomplish by tapping into it. |
| 0:42.0 | Every week we explore what we don't know because curiosity makes you smarter. |
| 0:46.2 | This is the Curiosity Podcast. |
| 0:51.5 | Imagine a global hive mind that could tap into the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people and produce a superintelligence that is way smarter than any individual person. |
| 1:03.0 | It's not science fiction, it's science fact. |
| 1:06.0 | Today, our guest is Dr. Louis Rosenberg, |
| 1:09.0 | founder and CEO of Unanimous AI, an artificial intelligence company. |
| 1:13.3 | He's working on technology that amplifies human intelligence |
| 1:16.2 | by building hive minds, modeled after swarms |
| 1:18.8 | you might find in nature like honey bees. |
| 1:21.0 | And it's already been able to make some amazing predictions. |
| 1:24.0 | Stick around to hear what the buzz is all about. |
| 1:27.0 | AI is hot these days, right? Artificial intelligence. You focus more on swarm intelligence, |
| 1:33.7 | but let's level set before we dive into the differences |
| 1:37.6 | between those two, and just to find what in this context |
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