Romancing the Rosetta Stone

Badass idea of the week (and it's only Monday!). This guy wrote software that allows you to feed it some translations of books in different languages, and then the software trains itself to translate /anything/ between said languages. What's particularly cool is that the software knows nothing of grammar and doesn't use dictionaries. It uses "experience" from previous translations to make the current translation. His software recently won a translation contest among 23 competing products.