hello @lupafilotaxia,
I personally do not believe that we are close to the technological singularity since this implies that machines can think for themselves, what I do agree is that advances in this field are going by leaps and bounds in a few years the gap between countries that have access to artificial intelligence and those that do not will be much larger because the first use of this technology is war, if we think for a moment to have access to the technological singularity is equal to having nuclear weapons today.