[p1esk]

If you look at papers from corporate AI researchers (FAIR, Google Brain, DeepMind, OpenAI, etc) they pretty much do whatever they want.

[rfhjt]

And I disagree violently. The deepmind folks are on salary and every year they need to prove that they are worth the money. This applies to Demis himself: he needs to prove that his org deserves this gaziliion of dollars per year.

[p1esk]

My point is they are not constrained to working on ads, or anything specific, and their work is not pointless.

[username90]

They are constrained to problems with annual results though.