Quite the opposite. They'll look back at the turbocharging of remote work, the skyrocketing big tech stocks, the embrace of mobile-everything, and so on, as accelerating the progress. You certainly see no slowdown in the onslaught of DL papers at the online conferences this year.
They are. They all contribute to available capital, data, legibility of employment arrangements (when you go fully remote, you've made considerable progress towards enabling automation of job roles by intermediating it, and it forces rearrangement of organizations to be digital-first), the value of AI, and so on. A world in which everyone works via a computer, and AI-heavy big tech organizations are the top predator is not a world which has delayed a Singularity!
