The singularity is close?
As someone almost completely without knowledge of AI and ML, these are some signs why I&#x27;m skeptical of this kind of claims:<p>- Most of the imminent AGI &#x2F; Singularity &#x2F; Robot Apocalypse stuff seems to come, with few exceptions, not from practitioners or computer scientists specialized in AI, but from &quot;visionaries&quot; (in the best case), internet celebrities, people with unrelated areas of expertise, or downright cranks (who are self-proclaimed experts) such as Yudkowsky.<p>- The assertion that &quot;a lot of effort&#x2F;investment is going into this, so it will happen&quot; begs the question that &quot;this&quot; is at all possible. If something is a dead end, no amount of investment and attention is going to bring it into existence. Quoting the article, &quot;with this much distributed attention fixed on the problem, AGI will be solved&quot; is not at all a given.<p>- Where are all the AI&#x2F;ML practitioners, i.e. people who don&#x27;t make a living out of predicting The End of the World, and with actual subject-matter achievements, predicting the Singularity and the Robot Apocalypse?