Dr. Louis Rosenberg was apprehensive when he tuned in to watch last year's Kentucky Derby.
It was the first horse race he ever placed a bet on, but his $20 Superfecta ticket was the least of his worries.
The reputation of his swarm artificial intelligence platform known as UNU was in play.
Rosenberg had been reluctant to take a challenge from the media to predict the Kentucky Derby. He didn't know anything about horse racing, other than it can very unpredictable. No one at his tech-startup Unanimous A.I. did, either.
"Honestly, I just hoped we wouldn't embarrass ourselves," said Rosenberg, a 47-year-old California inventor with a Ph.