Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain
Here's the paper in Science for anyone with an account:https://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1202.abstract?si...I couldn't find a pdf that wasn't behind a paywall.  Also, there are different details at popsci.com:http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/meet-spaun-fir...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.