Listen now | One of the core topics within the ML space that I have studied happens to be return on investment or more to the point an examination of just how well spent money would be in the space. You can certainly spend money on machine learning and artificial intelligence related efforts as a part of a think tank, an independent lab, or a pure research institution. Within corporate spaces pure research and development is one thing, but generally to expend the precious capital resources of an institution, organization, or group you want to know that some type of return will be accumulated from those activities. It’s inherent to the nature of the venture into running a corporation compared to running some other type of organization.