For the most part, I'm ready for the Singularity (not the most for the rest of my family)

Alright, I can't claim I've read any books on the topic or anything (I'm just now checking out a couple popular ones), but for the most part I believe that the Singularity is for the better and I'm ready for it and excited to see what it can do. I'm already comfortable calling what I work with AI. In my day-to-day life I work with an AI that can take a human's voice and make it sound like it's coming from a specific device (i.e. Bluetooth speaker, hearing aid, etc.). I've also worked with AI that can (with certain limitations) make a human's voice sound like a different voice (like making a man sound like a woman).<br><br>But despite being excited for my AI that can make you sound like your grandma (at least if your grandma was a white woman in her 70s from New England), I know that most people aren't in the same boat as me in terms of being ready for what this kind of technology will do to society. I'm not trying to make anyone's voice sound like a woman's, the most they know about AI is that cars can now drive themselves and that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and whoever else (I'm aware that there are a lot more people who are actually in on the ground-level of working on AI) were talking about how they think the Singularity would be bad. My grandparents and my half-aunt (who is in her late 20s for anyone wondering) are the kind of people who would hear a human-like voice come from Alexa and tell it to STFU and that it's just a machine. (I'm occasionally tempted to make a device that has Alexa do that to my grandparents when they do this... but I would never actually do that, of course.) They are also the type of people who seriously ask if a voice from a smart speaker can hear them when it's not "on".<br><br>I haven't asked them about AGI, because at this point, I don't really see any reason to. I think for the most part they don't know the first thing about AGI (not that I do, but they don't even know what I do, so...). They might have heard of it of course, but they wouldn't know anything about it other than "the news says it's bad" (I'm sure Peter Thiel saying it's bad hasn't helped, either).<br> <br>One of them has had a smart speaker for years, which I bought for them, and has (rarely) actually figured out how to get it to do something for them. I've even set it to call me when they say my name (if I'm home and have my Alexa app pulled up, I can hear it say it, and then I call them back), which they have actually taken advantage of a couple of times (only for them to forget that you have to *speak* to the device, not just talk in the room).<br><br>I've tried for years to get them to let me set up something like that for them, and even offered to pay for it, and they've turned me down at every opportunity. And yet I'm over here working for a company that literally sells AGI... it's just for a very niche and specific use, but it's the first AGI that I'm aware of that has been truly released to the public, and we even talk about how we think it's going to make a huge difference in the next 5 or 10 years. Maybe it's just for something very niche and specific, but we literally sell AGI. And yet my grandparents aren't even willing to get something like Alexa, which has been out for years and isn't even close to AGI.<br><br>I know they aren't alone in this, and I'm sure there have been tons of polls and studies about how people feel about this kind of technology, but I'm curious to hear people's thoughts. I'm not looking to change anyone's mind or anything like that, I just am curious to hear how people feel about this.