Has AI reached the singularity? What smart people are saying about Sam Altman's claim

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sam Altman says we're in the singularity, a point at which AI surpasses human capabilities and improves itself. Not everyone is convinced, despite how quickly AI is improving. "Rapid progress is not itself the singularity," Roman Yampolskiy, a computer science professor, told BI. Sam Altman said the singularity is here. Not everyone agrees. The singularity is often used to describe a point at which AI improves itself so quickly that humans…