Maybe these AI Apocalypse articles published for general consumption would be justified if there were any signs whatsoever that we were on a path towards AGI but there are none, are there? Even the best we have today are still just machines. They are clearly not really intelligent. At best they simulate intelligence, but poorly (because they still make ridiculous mistakes). Just because there are no physical limits to intelligence doesn't mean it's possible for beings with finite intelligence to create infinite intelligence. It all just seems extremely premature to me.