The Market Research Turing Test: Can DIY Tools Ever Fully Replace Research Professionals?

It's a topic that has been explored countless times in the annuls of science fiction...human dominance subsumed by ever more intelligent machines. Mankind, in an attempt to create the ultimate simple life where most tasks are carried out by untiring automatons, inadvertently creates its own ironic extinction. The signs are everywhere...Google's Self-Driving Car, fully-automated factories, and of course human-like robots (replicants?) These machines/cyborgs or whatever you decide to classify them as have been developing at a rapid pace within a timescale that is minute compared to the entire history of computing. Some may (hopefully misguidedly) suggest that we are headed towards a Technology Singularity where we've created artificial intelligence (AI) so powerful that it is capable of not only self-improvement of its own faculties but full replication in an endless array of iterations more intelligent than its previous versions.