IBM's Watson Algorithm

I just finished watching the IBM Challenge on Jeopardy.

I did a little more research on the inner workings of watson. Watson is not an all-encompassing algorithm which can figure out the answer to a given question. Watson is a collection of algorithms with some sort of confidence-measuring algorithm to determine which algorithm is the most correct.

This is fairly similar to what I already do.

I have a number of trading systems and I choose which ones to trade for a given market.

I have no idea how the confidence algorithm works, but if we can figure out a rudimentary one, I don't see how we can get a similar system running in MT4

You may have seen this article?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110217/...man_vs_machine

A week ago PBS had a special on the development of Artificial Intelligence and Watson. It took 4+ years to get Watson to point where they were confident enough to apply to Jeopardy for a chance. Development of Big Blue to play chess was much easier - there is a finite number of outcomes for every chess move.

I'm pretty sure natural language is as difficult if not more difficult as understanding innate patterns in the forex market--sans news events.

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/02/ibm-w...wers-your.html