No, sadly. If we make a brain by simulating neurons then we will end up with a brain that can't understand itself well enough to make improvements, just like ours. Writing a program to be intelligent to a level similar to a human seems to be something we've made no progress on for 50 years (all the impressive progress has been in very niche areas). It seems highly likely to me that we won't know how to do this 20 to 30 years from now either. And then of course it would still need to be self-improving.
Then over this period of time (and likely much less) we still have the major challenge of keeping civilization ticking along at all. Resource production rates are falling and will start falling at increasing rates. There don't seem to be any magical/technological solutions to dropping power rates. Economies all over the world are already suffering. Computers don't work well without electricity.
So close, and yet so far.
If we make a brain by simulating neurons then making it superhuman is a matter of throwing hardware at it, and it could certainly help design better hardware. In terms of subjective time no it would not be a lot faster than a human but that doesn't matter to the outside view.
I actually think though that apart from just more cycles the patch-work simulation brain would enjoy immense advantages in terms of access to information and computing facilities. Similar to the advantages we would anticipate from "wiring in" an organic brain but even better since it can benefit from much higher bandwidth.
By singularity I mean a recursive self-improving intelligence created by man that will help us solve the worlds problems.
please explain the downvotes.. sorry I didn't write an essay or link to lots of in-jokes about the sky being green. It's just a simple question so I didn't want to embellish it.