content: AlphaGo Zero has recently (like literally yesterday) been able to completely master the Chinese board game of Go in 3 days with NO PRIOR TRAINING, completely FROM SCRATCH. It discovered moves and strategies that have taken humanity thousands of years to develop and master. It then went on to discover completely novel and superior moves and strategies, and has beaten the best Go players in the world with a 100-0 win rate. It achieved this simply by playing Go against itself to learn how to play. This means that general AI is very close, and the techniques used to make AlphaGo Zero will be adapted to other tasks. Now imagine a generalized AI that can learn anything, simply by practicing (the way humans do) but can do in 3 days what takes all of humanity thousands of years to achieve.  A technological singularity by 2045 is absolutely possible.