If you are curious about brain emulation specifically, FHI’s 2008 Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap is still good reading. AI doesn’t specifically try to emulate the brain, though. E.g. vision models in machine learning have ended up sharing some similarities with the human visual system without having tried to directly copy it and instead focusing just on “how to learn useful models from this data”.
If you are curious about brain emulation specifically, FHI’s 2008 Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap is still good reading. AI doesn’t specifically try to emulate the brain, though. E.g. vision models in machine learning have ended up sharing some similarities with the human visual system without having tried to directly copy it and instead focusing just on “how to learn useful models from this data”.