Unless, some kind of ad-hoc architecture permits the AI to grow up, which could be a project or two already, behind the information firewall of the research teams. Not going here to "caution, AGI explosion possible", but more a grounded "some could guess our trick and stole the market before us".
For the singularity thing, too many people worried about, and most probably we will hit singularity a lot of time before we actually acknowledge that we have done. Not AGI stuff again, remember that extremely advanced (AI) technology is more than enough to radically change society, not AGI required.
Our existence in the 'now' means we're reactive to the now and the universe of events influence us as much if not more than our concept of free will. I don't think to make my skin react to cold air. If these models can't ingest, quantify or even understand/intuit current stimuli, they're a dead end solution and the problems are bigger, harder and still being ignored during the cash grab era.
I haven't seen or heard a single word of progress on that front. Any sources?