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Actually, that's how a Swarm Intelligence works - it's a real-time system that connects LIVE PEOPLE using swarming algorithms.

So, the Boston Globe provided the people and provided the questions... they formed a Swarm Intelligence, and made the predictions.

The Boston Globe did this to see if the swarm intelligence could make strong picks. It did.

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I get it, but there is a little bit of dishonesty in saying it was the system that did the work. It was the system that automated discovery of a solution, but it was the people that did the work.

As I pointed out in a different post, this is an update of the established technique of delta polling. Delta polling is useful, and an automated way of doing it can help if find even more uses for a lower cost. I see the value here. But, it isn't AI, and the system isn't doing the assessment. It is not intelligence.

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