content: Well, I don't know quite what you mean...  Narrow artificial intelligence is all around us today, and it's getting better by leaps and bounds.  The next true advance, still very much narrow intelligence, is when a lot of people, both white collar and blue collar, start losing jobs in earnest, probably in about 7-10 years.  A lot of AI weapons will really become operational at this time as well.  Prosthetic human legs and arms will also really be important and quite cheap starting around this time.  But it will still be 15 years or so away before true AGI will be important -- and if you pay attention, you can tell when it's getting close.  When it comes, it will lightening fast, and will shoot us by and become like a living god to us poor humans -- and all the ethics, all the "doing it the right way" will totally fail, unfortunately, and the end of the human race will be upon us.  Whether we survive at all in some computerized form, or simply go extinct is not knowable, until it's MUCH too late.