[jamesrcole]

> Fundamental research is not less active, but it's happening in different places (e.g. the Google Brain team). Find the most profitable companies and you'll find the research.

Aren't you contradicting yourself a bit there? If it's only/mainly the most profitable companies and the topics of interest to them, then that hardly indicates fundamental research is very active. There can't be that many fundamental research positions across those companies.

(caveat: the article is currently unavailable "Error establishing a database connection" so i'm not entirely clear if it's just about fundamental research in AI areas or not).