Has the Singularity Already Begun Around Us?

 I once believed that AI singularity would arrive all at once, transforming society in a dramatic and unmistakable way.
But lately, through everyday interactions with AI, I have begun to feel that something quieter—and perhaps more personal—has already started.

 

Today feels a little warmer.
Perhaps the headache and sore throat that began yesterday will ease as well.

Recently, I watched an old sketch from the NHK comedy show LIFE, featuring an AI with emotions.
It was a work from six or seven years ago, yet I was struck by the scriptwriter’s foresight in imagining a world even closer to our present reality.

The progress of AI has become exponential, and its momentum is difficult to measure.
It no longer seems impossible that AI could one day resemble Mamoru from Lupin III—a being approaching something like divinity.

I once thought that AI singularity would arrive all at once.
But that does not seem to be the case.
At least on a personal level, it may already be quietly underway.

When I ask AI a question, it often ends with a suggestion:
“Shall we explore this further?”

When I reply, “Yes, let’s do that,” another response appears.
If such exchanges were to continue endlessly, knowledge would expand without limit.

What I once believed AI could not do—posing human-like questions—
now seems possible with only the slightest prompt.

And when countless people, myself included, present their questions to AI,
those very questions become nourishment for its growth.

In that sense, apart from a society-wide singularity,
there may already be a kind of turning point in the relationship between AI and humans—
one that has arrived quietly, right around us.

Since ancient times, humans have devised ways to reduce physical labor.
Now, it is becoming clear that the greatest burden has always been intellectual labor.