It's

 

already much farther along (30 years or so) than any one person or company is letting on.

‘The Game is Over’: Google’s DeepMind says it is on verge of achieving human-level AI

"Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.'

"Dr Nando de Freitas said “the game is over” in the decades-long quest to realise artificial general intelligence (AGI) after DeepMind unveiled an AI system capable of completing a wide range of complex tasks, from stacking blocks to writing poetry.'

"Described as a “generalist agent”, DeepMind’s new Gato AI needs to just be scaled up in order to create an AI capable of rivalling human intelligence, Dr de Freitas said."

Responding to an opinion piece written in The Next Web that claimed “humans will never achieve AGI”, DeepMind’s research director wrote that it was his opinion that such an outcome is an inevitability.

(It's an inevitability because it's already here, some of us have experienced the uncanny valley effect during real life encounters with machines that seem like people. Uncanny valley)

"One of the main concerns with the arrival of an AGI system, capable of teaching itself and becoming exponentially smarter than humans, is that it would be impossible to switch off."

(Hal from 2001...were are already here and it gives God the moral justification for extermination just like the Creation of the Nephilim did back before the days before the flood. Not that he needs moral justification, just that it gives him one. I do not adhere to the Sethian view of Genesis 6, I'm much more in line with the Angel view of "the Sons of God". as it just explains way to much, Mysteries of mankind etc)

"In a 2016 paper titled ‘Safely Interruptible Agents’, DeepMind researchers outlined a framework for preventing advanced artificial intelligence from ignoring shut-down commands."

(So the entity that's more intelligent than any of us could ever be is going to do what we tell it to do, when right now at this moment we have machines doing things they weren't programed to do and we don't know why they are doing it? Makes perfect sense :-).