Chilling insight from a colleague: current tech founders in AI space are relatively altruistic, but as field matures the business CEOs will take over and make it way more profit-oriented. Happened in several other fields. This might be the friendly good old days of AI.
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It doesn't have to be an altruistic motive -- wanting to personally go to Mars or live longer is a selfish motive! As is wanting to work on interesting problems with fun people! But it's intrinsic interest in the thing for its own sake rather than just ROI.
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In principle, the ROI on research can be spectacularly good. In practice, the point at which even the most "radical" professional investors shell out is usually long after the basic premise has been de-risked a LOT, usually in academia.
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