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 Photograph: Sebastian Kaulitzki / Alamy/Alamy Artificial intelligence (AI) Zuckerberg and Musk back software startup that mimics human learning San Francisco startup Vicarious aims to create 'a computer that thinks like a person except it doesn't need to eat or sleep' Dominic Rushe in New York @dominicru Fri 21 Mar ‘14 16.
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 “We tell investors that right now, human beings are doing a lot of things that computers should be able to do,” he said.
 The investment comes amid a boom in funding for artificial intelligence ventures, In January IBM announced it was investing more than $1bn to create the Watson Group, a 2,000-employee division dedicated to developing its self-learning super-computer.
 The money includes $100m to fund startups that find creative uses for Watson.