Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain
Here's the paper in Science for anyone with an account:<p><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1202.abstract?sid=416f75e9-5de2-46c4-86c5-ecb89f8c919b" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1202.abstract?si...</a><p>I couldn't find a pdf that wasn't behind a paywall.  Also, there are different details at popsci.com:<p><a href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/meet-spaun-first-computer-model-complex-brain-behavior" rel="nofollow">http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/meet-spaun-fir...</a><p>As for my own comments, I think it's actually a promising approach but that down the road it will be necessary to model emotions if human-like AI is the goal, and that this seems... harder.  So much of our thought and behaviour is driven by emotion that I would say it was actually primary.