Except that most of the research is being done by private industry and by numerous companies, including many very big and established ones. Not only that, if you follow that general field you will notice that advances are being made VERY fast. As I said earlier, I am intimately familiar with the field as an observer and even I am somewhat stunned by the blinding pace of improvements and discoveries. I honestly did not think they would be hitting milestones as fast as they are, and I considered myself a fairly well-informed optimist.
In some ways, this is actually quite a bit easier than fusion research. The nature of the problems are simpler and easy to do research on, all things considered.
Except that most of the research is being done by private industry and by numerous companies, including many very big and established ones. Not only that, if you follow that general field you will notice that advances are being made VERY fast
In 1985 I did some contract work for a company that claimed to be researching "artificial intelligence" along with a lot of other buzzwords. They had a guy at the front desk guy working the phones full time giving this line of bull to potential investors and writing up press releases. It was sad because I knew one of the programmers who told me how their demos were all faked, etc. They took the money and ran.
Remember the dot-com crash? Same thing. Same old stuff. And big & established companies have in the past been taken over by scoundrels. Happens all the time. Remember Enron?
Are you at liberty to disclose what these improvements are and what implcations they have?
Forgive me if you've already done so.