AI is already here. There's not much new about it except showing
   up in the news more. Almost nothing was said about AI for about
   10-12 years or so. That was called "AI Winter". Other topics
   were more interesting and got more funding. Now AI is
   interesting again. But I always found it interesting.
   Singularity? lol. No. We're nowhere near that point.We haven't
   even decoded the brain yet. Computer programs are already
   self-referential - they've been from the early days of AI in the
   60s.