AGI will be the most profound technology we will have invented and it'll be the last technology we have to invent. Significantly more profound than the internet. And yes I think AGI is coming soon, 5-10 years or less.
As someone once said, software is an enabler not the solution itself.
I disagree when it comes to AGI. AGI is the solution itself. If we can put truly human-level intelligence into a machine, and we can make it cheap enough to run at scale, it can do all the intellectual work we can do, almost by definition. If it couldn't do it, then it wouldn't be human-level AGI.