Dang....That's mind boggling
But the hard part is, the AI for it.
They may be able to recreate the human brain as an electronic microprocessor but the AI has to control it.
Like saying, you may have the brains, but do you have the knowledge.
You have it backwards. the idea of a neural network is to allow for AI without requiring explicit programming that would be required in software- it allows for fuzzy logic decisions to be made- for example, people make fuzzy logic decisions all the time,
if we ask a person, "is this colour red" they don't internally compare the colour to equal red exactly, they apply learned fuzzy logic that essentially boils down to, "is this colour closer to red then any other colour I know". with sufficient learning, (which I might add is how a neural network gets "knowledge", and learns patterns much like the human brain does).
Some people think neural networks are a waste of time- however, they can provide far more intuitive work with computers- take for example OCR, which as it stands now is fairly strong. by programming a neural network one could acquire virtually limitless and flawless. recognition of any character to a standard unicode character.
"Training", much as with a human brain, is a necessary part of creating a neural network with the proper "connections" and, as you say, "knowledge". Training is similar to that used with people- by asking a neural network, for example "is this face male or female", it will basically need to provide a complete guess the first time. However- no matter wether the guess was right or wrong, it can then save that "knowledge" about that particular face so that it may provide more accurate "guesses" in future queries. By training the network in this way with a variety of different faces, it can achieve over a 99% accuracy on something as complex as recognizing a human face.
Some might say, 99% accuracy isn't 100%. And that, of course, is true. But as much as we hate to admit it sometimes- even we have trouble distinguishing genders- which results in some uncomfortable situations, to say the least