It seems more likely more fundamental innovations are going to come from academia with a culture of seriousness and decades of work without returns. On this si

It seems more likely more fundamental innovations are going to come from academia with a culture of seriousness and decades of work without returns. On this side there is a strong tendency to be blinded by hype, underestimate problems or wish them away with naive desperation that things will just happen based more on hope than reality. We saw that with the self driving crowd underestimating the problems and overestimating the existing technology, and now with the AI folks, who are already guilty of perpetuating hype knowing fully well that their extremely limited definition of 'AI' is nothing like what the world understands by AI. All the privacy shenanigans, crypto disaster, self driving cars and AI leave the reputation of tech community in a very bad place.