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.

It was already during march in the news, AlphaGo, an AI based on Neural Networks, beat Lee Sedol, a professional Go player, 4:1.

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

The Chinese take over the leadership of the US in supercomputing, the most powerful, homegrown, system is now the Sunway TaihuLight with a LINPACK benchmark rating of 93 petaFLOPS.

+1 points for the Singularity to take off.

If we can not shrink the transistor size any further, what other options do we have to increase compute power?

3D packaging

The ITRS report suggest to go into third dimension and build cubic chips. The more layers are build the more integrated cooling will be necessary.

Memory Wall

Currently memory latencies are higher than compute cycles on CPUs, with faster memory tehchniques or higher bandwidth the gap can be closed.

Memristor

The Memristor is an electronic component proposed in 1971. It can be used for non-volatile memory devices and alternative, neuromorphic compute architectures.

Photonics

Using light for computation sounds quite attractive, but the base element, the photonic transistor, has yet to be developed.

Quantum Computing

Really, i do not have a clue how these thingies work, somehow via Quantum Effects like Superposition and Entanglement but people say they are going to rock when they are ready...

Considering so much room for research,
i give +1 points for the Singularity to take off.