Zuckerberg, Musk, and Kutcher Want to Build You a New Brain | Enterprise | WIRED

Zuckerberg, Musk, and Kutcher Want to Build You a New Brain | Enterprise | WIRED: ...a $40 million investment in a new kind of artificial intelligence called Vicarious...

Vicarious co-founder Dileep George previously built a similar company called Numenta...

This is the second big funding round for Vicarious, and it was lead by venture capital outfit Formation 8. The first $15 million round included investments by Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz; former Facebook CTO and Quora founder Adam D’Angelo; PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel; and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

A Startup Tries to Make a Better Artificial Brain - Technology Review

A Startup Tries to Make a Better Artificial Brain - Technology Review: Vicarious, George says, is using a more sophisticated architecture and training its system with a video stream that varies over time...

The Brainy Learning Algorithms of Numenta - Technology Review

The Brainy Learning Algorithms of Numenta - Technology Review: The system's ability to make predictions about unfolding events is rooted in its unique capacity for processing temporal, or time-dependent, data. Conventional learning software cannot do that, because it can't handle input consisting of many variables that change over time. Instead, engineers generally have to extract the handful of variables they think are useful and feed them into the algorithms.

That "pre-processing" isn't necessary in models inspired by studies of biological brains, Arel says. Instead, the learning system can decide for itself what is important and what isn't. This is an emerging field dubbed deep machine learning. "Most academic efforts are focused on processing images, though," he says. "What's unique about Numenta is that it's able to handle temporal data, which opens up different kinds of applications."