Not sure if I believe in the singularity. I think technology brings about singularities from time to time. Each one puts us on a new plateau which seemed unfathomable from the previous plateau but now looks commonplace. I realize the concept of singularity is that we accelerate unheeded to a point of infinite progress, but do you really think this current generation of LLMs (and this round of VC funding) is going to give me a wetware lab at home where I can give myself custom gene therapies to reverse disease and aging? The technology is cool but what I see at this point is most of its capability is already on display and people are rushing to carve out an ownership stake to secure profit. We already see copyright holders putting limits on LLM providers, safety measures, proprietary models solving the Big Problems. Wouldn’t surprise me if this kind of reverse engineering will be restricted to security researchers and black market ablated models in two years, unfortunately.