This happened in the 1990s too. With any sort of computational talent not just AI. Professors were leaving for industry all over. But then 1) the dot-com bust h

This happened in the 1990s too. With any sort of computational talent not just AI. Professors were leaving for industry all over. But then 1) the dot-com bust happened 2) A lot of former academics realized that despite the nice salary, working on a platform to sell pet food online or whatever wasn't exactly intellectually stimulating. So it sorted itself out in the end.