A chatbot’s efficiency highly depends on language processing and is limited because of irregularities, such as accents and mistakes. As a result, we’ll likely see corporations become the home of many of the most important innovations in machine intelligence and recruit many of the graduate students and postdocs that would have otherwise stayed in academia. Big companies have a disproportionate advantage, especially those that build consumer products. Aggregating a team like that is, in itself, a viable market strategy, because there are so few people with 8-10 years of experience in this field. Their brains are so valuable that investors...