You know who might be most surprised that Time magazine picked U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as their Person of the Year? Time magazine's readers. They participated in an online poll last month based on a list of names compiled by IBM's supercomputer Watson. Trump was on the list, but the readers voted for India's president Narendra Modi.

Swarm intelligence nailed it, though. Today, the San Francisco-based tech company Unanimous A.I. confirmed what it had predicted yesterday: that Donald Trump would come out on top. It arrived at that conclusion after a mere 75 people randomly selected to work together in real-time used the company's online platform, called UNU, to narrow down the choices.

The collective intelligence governed by A.I. algorithms demonstrates that when it comes to the wisdom of the crowd, swarms win where polls fail.

"A poll just tells you the divisions in a group. That's why polls are polarizing," Unanimous A.I.'s CEO Louis Rosenberg told Seeker. "Whereas a swarm is unifying. It will actually have the group find the answer it can agree upon."

Anyone can become part of the intelligent swarm, which opened to the general public this past June. Signing up is free and once in, users can anonymously suggest questions or enter a "room" to help generate answers. Because questions gets answered in real-time, people can sign up for alerts to topics that interest them the most and then join the swarm at the right time. Who will win the Superbowl? Should you buy a certain stock? Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize? What will the new president tweet about next?

Using the platform is easy. Once inside a room to work in a swarm, a screen appears with the question at the top. For example, during the election, one group was asked, "What is the most important issue in the presidential campaign?" It was encircled with several possible answers, including healthcare, immigration, taxes, jobs, gun control and military.