Why academic research in AI is a total waste of time

Jeremy Howard, a creator of fast.ai and an ex-President of Kaggle says that most of the research in the deep learning world is a total waste of time. He explains why it is so and what is currently being under studied i.e. active learning and transfer learning. Active learning and transfer learning are further elaborated in this blog post. When asked a question "what's wrong with Artificial Intelligence?", However, when you literally dig into the question, the industry of AI is fighting its own demons.