This result came out of a large team that Google paid a lot of money for. Google Brain has been kicking ass internally solving really hard problems like realtime translation or ranking. Most major companies from Toyota to Baidu to IBM have research money focused on AI. Industry and investment is already focused on AI.

Relative to other research fields there is not a shortage of investment in AI, and despite the difficult market you see recent big investments in companies like Cruise or OpenAI: https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-current-state-of-machine-i...