Ask HN: Is General purpose AI going to sneak up on us?

I have been following the ai space for a few years now and everyday there seems to be a breakthrough in fields people believed impossible to solve by AI systems. Although the general consensus is that good AI is quite a bit far away ,could it be we are vastly underestimating the capabilities of self learning systems. from my view all the basic ingredients for some form of AGI already exist.So i fear that we might create AGI as in spontaneous combustion of gas in a hot day.