Deep neural nets and the purpose of life

A few weeks ago, I was in the process of transitioning out from one project to another at work. This provided an awesome time window to read up on some of the long pending topics of interest. Machine learning topped that list. It is a field that has already permeated the technology world deeply but I had no understanding of what it is all about. Just a few weeks of surface level reading since then (and playing around with some of the tools) has left me pretty convinced that we are fast accelerating towards a general artificial intelligence.