The amount of wishful thinking on this sub borders on that of religion. Everyone wants something from the singularity, whether it's immortality, not having to work, or escape existential dread by living in a VR.

While I have no doubt the singularity will come at some point, I don't think it will happen in the next 5 to 10 years.

Complexity in AI is hugely underestimated (by many, many exponential steps), and all reasons as to why some fields like biology will not grow exponentially, even with a fully functioning AI in place, (financial blocks, time for technology to be adapted, slow experimental verification of predictions, ...) are conveniently skipped over.

The way to prepare is to live your life as if it it's not going to happen, because that is what it's going to feel like for the next 10 years at least.