I'm With Skynet, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace The Singularity – Startup Grind

So just about once a day, we hear some new story about advances in AI engines and the terrifying speed at which they are approaching Skynet-level self awareness (and potentially self interest! Just this week it was "Bots creating their own language", "DeepMind bots outperforming and learning faster than humans", and "Ray Kurzweil predicting AI passing a Turing test in 2029 with The Singularity (the point at which our conscious minds transcend matter and merge with the cloud) occurring somewhere around 2045ish". If you work in physical labor, this has probably already happened to some extent. If you work in thought labor, it's happening right now. If you work in thought labor that's chiefly creative, it's probably up in the air right now because we don't know how quickly the bots will learn to be decent comedians or mumble rappers or kitty cats that are pretty.