This is a farewell post by Yukino (although they hint they will be back in future years), but it gives an interesting take on where we are at with AI and quantum computing. Largely, it's an expression of disappointment at the caliber of problems people are trying to solve.
And yet every stack I go to seems to want to reinvent the wheel, and often times this reimplementation seems to be the result of ignorance of our past technology.
Regarding computing, Yukino says we aren't going to get anything that much better than what we already have until we figure out new ways to use the world around us.
the actual future of technology must attempt to find a way to bypass that light speed limitation, which will require an understanding and ability to manipulate massless physics so that E=mc^2 does not hold.
And as for AGI:
Brain architecture is a reconfiguring, highly parallel, and highly redundant system, while classical computer architecture is static and not redundant at all. And so, I'm extremely doubtful that our Perceptron-based approaches running on classical computer architecture will produce the mythic Artificial General Intelligence.
It's an interesting read if you can get past the weird snow-falling background.