Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla’s Elon Musk have backed a new project to build software that thinks and learns like humans.
The project is called Vicarious, which is a four year old start up from San Francisco, and Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have invested $40 million us dollars in the company.
As well as Zuckerberg and Musk, other investors in Vicarious include Paypal’s Peter Thiel, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and Ashton Kutcher.
Vicarious is developing machine learning software based on the computational principles of the human brain. Our first technology is a visual perception system that interprets the contents of photographs and videos in a manner similar to humans. Powering this technology is a new computational paradigm we call the Recursive Cortical Network ™.
The software that is in development is already capable of solving things like Captcha, which is an online test used by websites to reduce spam.
You can find out more details about the Vicarious project over at the company’s website at the link below.
Source Vicarious, The Guardian
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