The Future of AI

There's a couple of active debates. One is the timeline about singularity. Some people say it's within the next decade. Other people like you just hinted like, ah, we don't even know, but it's way far out. And then I'll ask about malevolent versus benevolent AI. Now to that point where you would have an equal and I understand that once the AI has the ability to self perpetuate, to think independently,. But how far is that possible singularity?