"Replacing bank and insurance workers with machines risks creating a dependency on outside technology companies beyond the reach of regulators, the global Financial Stability Board (FSB) said on Wednesday".

Considering HFT, they probably know what they are talking about.

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

AlphaGo Zero teaches itself Go on Grandmaster level in three days, "Go from an alternate dimension" .

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

It still can not compete with handcrafted designs, but it is one step closer to the direct feedback loop a technological Singularity needs - when machines create machines.

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

Silicon Valley Techies begin to disconnect from the Internet, attracts too much attention and can be manipulative they say.

Is it just rogue memes fighting for human brain resources, or could it be an sign that we reached some kind of informational tipping point?

In both cases, i give +1 points for the Singularity to take off.

Ohoh, source code is becoming too complex to get things done.

-1 points for the Singularity to take off.

How many light bulbs do you need to replace an Software Engineer?

*duck*

They are smart, they have money, and they predict the Super AI Doomsday:

Stephen Hawking
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race”

James Lovelock
"Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over"

Nick Bostrom
"Some little idiot is bound to press the ignite button just to see what happens."

Elon Musk
"Artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat"

So, obviously, +1 points for the Singularity to take off.

The first religion with an AI as god has been spotted,

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

Voices in the web raise that AI is just over-hyped, and we may reached already peak hype.

-1 points for the Singularity to take off.

Manmade CO2 emission can cause an ELE, extinction level event, in 2100, say scientists.

-1 points for the Singularity to take off.