Elon Musk (Tesla Motors/SpaceX CEO), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO), and Ashton Kutcher (actor/investor) have invested $40 million into artificial-intelligence company Vicarious.
Vicarious has a goal of replicating the neocortex, which is part of the brain that controls the body, understands language, and can perform math functions.
If you are able to replicate this functionality in a computer, it thinks like a person except eating and sleeping is not necessary. Facebook and Tesla Motors both use artificial intelligence (AI) for its products. Facebook uses artificial intelligence for facial recognition around its tagging feature.
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