“The singularity will surely not come when some machine has achieved some hypothetical super intelligence that will always be beyond individual, physical beings. It will come when Silicon Valley has successfully dumbed everyone down to the level of ChatGPT. 

This is why everyone needs to be more like mad penguins, and less like pigs in tubes. If truth is indeed a journey, then there must always be searchers after it—in order for truth, as such, to be sustained. Since truth is ultimately about meaning, it is not the sort of thing that might ever persist indifferently, like a fact. Truth is not found in the lab, or on the accountant's balance sheet. Rather, it is something which emerges in the context of the crazy journey, or the quest. And so it's time to turn your back on the rest of the flock, and head for the mountains.”

https://defector.com/werner-herzogs-new-book-tackles-the-problem-of-truth