That seems to be university PR doing its "magic." The actual study is much more interesting: the humans weren't allowed to speak to each other, and pheromones wouldn't help the ants solve the problem, so both groups were communicating through haptic feedback. Ants do this naturally and demonstrated swarm intelligence behavior by "going with the flow", but the humans kept working at cross purposes by trying to implement a complete solution without coordinating the details.
I agree with the overall conclusion, even if it's phrased misleadingly: human collective intelligence is primarily about individual intelligences accessing group knowledge rather than groups working together to tackle complex problems beyond individual comprehension. Ants are not individually capable of understanding the piano-mover problem at a basic level; research administrators are generally capable of understanding the work of individual researchers, they just don't have the time to digest all the details.
I agree with the overall conclusion, even if it's phrased misleadingly: human collective intelligence is primarily about individual intelligences accessing group knowledge rather than groups working together to tackle complex problems beyond individual comprehension. Ants are not individually capable of understanding the piano-mover problem at a basic level; research administrators are generally capable of understanding the work of individual researchers, they just don't have the time to digest all the details.