I completely agree. I was involved as a tech executive at a large medical center trying to get collaborative work with both Google per se, and DeepMind, to a u

I completely agree. I was involved as a tech executive at a large medical center trying to get collaborative work with both Google per se, and DeepMind, to a usable or product stage, and it was essentially impossible. DeepMind in particular was more interested in pushing the research envelope, and getting more papers in Nature, than in building products. I wouldn't underestimate the degree to which this is by design, from the very top of Google. Different Google and other Alphabet companies' executives more than once told me they just weren't interested in products that didn't have an obvious path to more than 1 billion users. The companies don't have a clue how to make money retail. If they can't print money with an idea, they don't have the tools and skills to bring it to market.