Patent Document ID: 8095480
Application ID: 11831416

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: initializing at least one of i)nodes in a first machine learning network and ii) connections between the nodes, to a predetermined strength value, wherein the nodes represent factors determining an output of the network; providing a first set of questions to a plurality of users, the first set of questions relating to at least one of the factors; receiving guesstimates from the users in response to the first set of questions; adjusting the predetermined strength value as a function of the guesstimates; and combining guesstimates received from the users with those of other users to develop and evaluate the network, which is a consensus network.

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Claim 9:
9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one question is directed to one of stock analysis, drug development, terrorist activity, event wagering, medical diagnosis, detection of credit card fraud, classification of DNA sequences, speech and handwriting recognition, object recognition in computer vision, game playing and robot locomotion.