Cited on HN 6 times, 2022–2025, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Mostly invoked as a joke in threads about monkeys or darts beating professional stock pickers, and about loose definitions of AI.
Michael Reeves rigs up a camera and software that tracks a goldfish's movements to choose stock trades, tied to wallstreetbets sentiment. It is a comedic programming and electronics stunt.
I came across a humorous video of someone getting his fish to invest in stocks [this video] He was essentially teaching algo trading, and also tracked wallstreet bets sentiment analysis. He went so far as to pitch his investment strategy to serious tech investors (it was ahead of the nasdaq at the time). His Wallstreet bets tracker had been tanking so he focused on the fish investing fund, but I was waiting for one of the investors to suggest he inverse wallstreet bets and make a lot of money.
Humorous video of a fish picking stocks, tracking WSB sentiment
It doesn’t even have to be software. This camera tracking a goldfish to pick stocks is AI by this definition: [this video] Update: A coin toss meets this definition.
This experiment was also performed with a fish [1] though it was only given $50,000. Spoiler, the fish did great vs wall street bets . [1] - [this video] [video][15 mins]
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