There's a specific singularity theory of AI that is very popular. Eliezer Yudkowsky helped popularize it among the Bay Area "rationalist" community, and it has this idea that AGI necessarily implies a self improving system that will quickly become a paperclip maximizer or other such dystopian or utopian world changing intelligence.
By that singularity definition, we're probably nowhere near AGI, but if we define it as something that is as good at text/information manipulation as the 50th percentile human? I think we're already there.
By that singularity definition, we're probably nowhere near AGI, but if we define it as something that is as good at text/information manipulation as the 50th percentile human? I think we're already there.