Did anybody of you look into neuromorphic computing?
Might be the next big thing, because it allows similar algorithms as machine learning, but with orders of magnitude lower energy consumption:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/neuromorphic-computing.html
We have a quite active research group at our faculty in Delft, NL:
https://www.tudelft.nl/ai/biomorphic-intelligence-lab