It's possible but there is nothing in the current economic or scientific worldsphere to make this possible so soon. I would give it another 100 years or longer.
Science advances by great leaps and bounds where pushed and the money and people are there. Look at how fast the atom bomb was developed. Unfortunately, artificial life and intelligence, and consciousness is just something dabbled in by few and there is nothing pushing it to happen so quickly. I don't see any reason for it either. I wouldn't want to deal with the ethical implications.
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