I am no AI expert, but couldn't a modern AI be trained more or less in the same way?
...the training was almost finished; the performances of the top 4 rats had turned out to be comparable to those of the world' s best fund managers. Their ability to recognize sound patterns generated from the market's ticker tape was incredible. And the rat traders also hold another advantage: unlike their human counterparts, they are not likely to be distracted from news or economy fundamentals, their own personal or their bank's financial status.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/paul-farrells-commentary-ch...
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/08/03/in-honor-of-planet-of...
The real question is whether the same four rats would be the outperformers if you ran the experiment again.