If you genuinely believed you were 18 months from building a superintelligence that could cure cancer, you probably wouldn't pivot the entire company to horny chatbots. But I'm just a person with priorities. Maybe the path to solving death really does go through AI girlfriends. I don't have an MBA.
@Daojoan More prosaically, if this AI thing had anything to offer, surely we'd be inundated with feel-good stories about how it was positively impacting local communities with new initiatives that presented (warning: linkedin-like speech) a "step-change" or "cutting a Gordian knot" in terms of dealing with entrenched thinking to present novel and far-reaching solution-oriented stuff.