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.

According to an paper from Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ideas are getting harder and harder to find...

-1 points for the Singularity to take off.

Based on deep neural networks an AI can detect sexual orientation from faces, a skill humans are not able to perform.

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

Another step forward into Quantum Computers, QuDits.

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

Computer AI hacks Computer AI during the DARPA Cyber Grand-Challenge.

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

Alphabet puts the famous Robo-Fab Boston Dynamics for sale, it questions that marketable products can be developed in time.

-1 points for the Singularity to take off.