I'm sure you're right. I'm not sure how the 'the bad things with AI' shake out, but I'm trying to be optimistic. For example it's not like customer supports bots aren't already commonly used, and it's not like they can really get any worse.

And even if the academic side is a small amount of the funding, it's at least something. Some of the rest is being spent training models I can download and run forever more.

I guess mainly I'd rather focus on the interesting technical and scientific side of AI rather than worry about the investors.