It's worth acknowledging that the definition of 'The Singularity' is when an artificial intelligence is first able to produce an artificial intelligence that is more complex than itself. I'm not necessarily convinced we're in that region yet.

Natural language processors like ChatGPT and other machine learning tools are certainly set to drastically alter the landscape of a lot of industries in the upcoming years, but I struggle to see that these tools would produce The Singularity. Mainly because the basis of their intelligence derives from a statistical evaluation of previous knowledge. In a sense it's a case of repeating back what it believes the statistically astute answer to be, which leaves not a lot of room for apotheosis.

Then again.. humans created these tools from the basis of our observed knowledge so... hard to say. The real interesting stuff will probably start happening once AI tools are made that can incorporate multiple vectors of information on the same platform and draw decisions based on that.