How about Jeremy Howard, former President of crowd-ML-competition site Kaggle and now founder of ML-medicine company Enlitic? http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurolog

How about Jeremy Howard, former President of crowd-ML-competition site Kaggle and now founder of ML-medicine company Enlitic? http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2p6k20/im_jeremy_howard_enlitic_ceo_kaggle_past/cmtvspz http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2p6k20/im_jeremy... The opinions of leading-edge researchers are valuable but not necessarily dispositive. Often, it benefits a researcher to be oblivious to the larger or darker implications of their work. Boundless optimism and a maniacal focus on only-what-is-knowable-right-now delivers publishable/actionable results, all the other 'speculation' is genuinely a "distraction" for them. That doesn't mean it's a distraction for us. Often the speculators and entrepreneurs ("billionaires and pundits") are more talented than researchers at projecting trends and social-economic interactions.