Getting Artificial Neural Networks Closer to Animal Brains

Lately, I've been thinking and reading a lot about consciousness and how the human mind works. A question that emerges all the time is whether machines can emulate human thought. An even more interesting one is whether consciousness (a subjective experience) can arise from a machine, but I'll leave that discussion for a future post (I'll need 20 more years to think about that before I can write about it). So, how far are we from _behaviorally _imitating a human? Truth is, we achieved a lot in the past 5 years (see AlphaGo, OpenGPT-2, OpenAI Jukebox, Tesla Autopilot, Alphastar, OpenAI Dota2 Team, OpenAI API), but we're still quite not there.