Comment Re:Funny, that spin... (Score 1) 421
Most bleeding edge AI research is being done by Google, Facebook, and Baidu.
Usually what happens when a few big Capitalist firms hoover up all the experts in a discipline, is that the discipline is badly stunted for quite awhile afterwards. Free inquiry doesn't happen when a few rich assholes who 'got there first' (the definition of Google and Facebook at least) buy up all the smarts and stick them in a building somewhere.