AI is already here. There's not much new about it except showing
  up in the news more. Almost nothing was said about AI for about
  10-12 years or so. That was called "AI Winter". Other topics
  were more interesting and got more funding. Now AI is
  interesting again. But I always found it interesting.
  Singularity? lol. No. We're nowhere near that point.We haven't
  even decoded the brain yet. Computer programs are already
  self-referential - they've been from the early days of AI in the
  60s.