Basing your idea on where the cutting edge will be in a decade on the current state of consumer products will be misleading. A roomba is a $300 piece of hardwa

Basing your idea on where the cutting edge will be in a decade on the current state of consumer products will be misleading. A roomba is a $300 piece of hardware with an embedded computer, IBM's Watson was a $3,000,000 system. Both Apple's Siri & Google's voice recognition blow the average call-center system away. I'm not sure we'll have sentience in 16 years, if ever, but we're a lot further ahead than you give us credit for.