Imagine Kant, Spinoza, Locke, Hilbert and Wittgenstein would have been forced to present at TED conferences to gain mind share and funding. The relationship between philosophy and culture would have been such a shit show. Like it is now.
I hear that Turing and Nash may be dead already, and Hinton is not moving significantly beyond the idea that CNNs are a suboptimal solution for approximating scenegraphs, which has been kinda suspected since the invention of digital filters.