Recent surveys show that AI experts are astonished by the incredible pace of artificial intelligence development, highlighting the division between acceleration proponents and doomsayers in the tech community. The findings indicate that AI experts generally perceive a trend of comprehensive acceleration, with the feasibility of 32 different AI-related tasks brought forward by 1.0 years. For advanced machine intelligence (HLMI) and fully autonomous (FAOL) systems, experts believe their arrival times have been advanced by 13 years and 48 years, respectively, reflecting an optimistic outlook on the pace of automation. 15.6% of experts believe in the speed of AI development.