Too far removed from the day-to-day to be reflected that it is more important to keep teaching than go to big company. Likewise, research could never make it ou

Too far removed from the day-to-day to be reflected that it is more important to keep teaching than go to big company. Likewise, research could never make it out of private companies and that is certainly a less favorable outcome for the public as a whole. The AI professors are probably paid much higher than peers in non-technical subjects but no university is going to be able to match Google or Facebook salaries, especially when these guys are in such demand that private industry is willing to pay $300-500k+ each for them (sometimes much more).