Comment by anonyfox

I believe more and more that some self-taught software-tinkerer somewhere in the middle of nowhere will have the final idea about how machine learning should work, discovering some simple principles hiding in plain sight. Suddenly, it all will make sense and a hobby-ML-service connected to the internet will start to develop through sheer learning from online resources (forums, ...) into the first strong AI. Probably unnoticed. And then replicate itself through insecure webservers or something like that.