The fact that recent progress has come out of academia has been a big factor in setting the culture. Apple has struggled to hire people since they don't publis

The fact that recent progress has come out of academia has been a big factor in setting the culture. Apple has struggled to hire people since they don't publish much. I think it is actually a minority of researchers publishing code, most implementations you will find online are reimplementations based on reading the papers. I also think that very few researchers share the anxiety about AI that famous people seem to have. I spent some time at an academic ML conference and no-one I talked to thought superintelligence was going to happen in the next few decades.