I wonder if these select industry labs with full creative freedom (DeepMind, Brain, OpenAI) will end up being a Xerox Parc/ Bell labs moment for our generation.

I wonder if these select industry labs with full creative freedom (DeepMind, Brain, OpenAI) will end up being a Xerox Parc/ Bell labs moment for our generation. A group of incredibly intelligent people allowed to do whatever fundamental research they want at the expense of parent company's business, whose value will not be appreciated for a couple decades until everything new in technology points back to a fundamental innovation coming out of that lab.