We're inching closer to building an 'artificial brain' that can perform work 24/7

Or so says Neil Jacobstein, an AI expert who has consulted on projects for the U.S. military, GM, and Ford, at Exponential Finance - a two-day conference on AI and robotics sponsored by CNBC and Silicon Valley think-tank Singularity University. "We are going to eventually understand how our brain works - we are going to reverse engineer the brain," Jacobstein, who is also co-chair of the AI and robotics track at Singularity University, said at the event. Jacobstein said we are already making enough progress in our lifetime that we will be able to artifically replicate the neocortex - the part of mammal's brains that controls sensory perception, motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and language in humans, according to Science Daily. And Jacobstein said he doesn't think it will stop there. "And we'll even be able to replicate and accelerate other parts of the brain as well, like the hippocampus," Jacobstein told Tech Insider after his presentation.