Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, announces his goal to build "a functioning, artificial human brain within the next 10 years." http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10294201-1.html

And there's more:

http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/80-ibm-swiss-scientists-to-create-artifical-human-brain-by-2015

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There is no spoon.

I think it will happen, I wouldn't bet the farm though.
All kind of crazy stuff goin on though.

By 2020? I think an artificial human brain more believable than a successful manned mission to the moon.

Who was that guy I watched on youtube recently, he said life exists wherever it can.
I'm still on that "Spontaneous DNA' thing for some reason.
Neurons, neurons.

I do believe it will happen and maybe even as soon as 2012, 2020 ... but then "the" program (programmed reality) will just reset itself to a multi-verse where Markman's brain does not work. Whenever people like Markam say all that is stopping them is the need for a bigger and better super computer, then I know it will not be due to any of their input into the mix.

Intelligence is not the machine: it is the program. The program for intelligence must be equally capable of displaying both intelligence as simple as an ant finding its way home to an ant colony, and intelligence yet as complex as the appreciating of art work.

The need for a bigger computer shows that the person is still focused on the computational intelligence rather than the non-probabilistic paradigm for general intelligence (as Goertzel calls it). I call it (real intelligence) cognitive causality. "Cognitive causality" is a program that eludes the problem of infinite probabilities (infinite monkey theorem)