AI - From Silo to Ecosystem

I sometimes reflect on how we will reach this stage of AI called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) which is defined by a state of AI that by some measure equivalents the human condition. Scientists in the field sometimes call this the singularity, or the point where AI will develop much faster and at larger scale than ourselves. This is of course still a hypothetical state and many out there are in the very process of proving it either wrong or right - so I am not going there in this post. Then I am not even touching the subjects of free will, intention, sentience and consciousness... Nevertheless it is interesting to reflect on, independent from utopian or dystopian narratives around which many writings, studies and opinions are centered, how the evolutionary steps of AI look like today. Usually evolution is considered over very large timeframes, meaning millions or billions of years.