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Not only corporations abandon real fundamental research, but people like the the author of that blog start referencing things like AlphaGo as "fundamental research" comparable to Shannon's or Turing's work.

AlphaGo is a good and necessary engineering, but the ideas are pretty old, and not especially illuminating. Start confusing it with fundamental research often enough, and people will start to believe it. And then, corporate managers, and academic research grants, and academic publishing venues, like conferences, will start expecting "fundamental research" to be like AlphaGo instead of actual fundamental research.