I think I've been reading the same article about how AI and the singularity is just around the "five year corner" for like at least 20 years now. I worked very

I think I've been reading the same article about how AI and the singularity is just around the "five year corner" for like at least 20 years now. I worked very briefly with some folks who do ML engineering and they were disillusioned to the point of nihilism. They claimed that most of their day was just spent fiddling with weights until they got the magic number their bosses wanted to see, and they were all looking to get out of the field.