what exactly do you define as "the hard work of bringing a product to market"? To me, his work at Google certainly applies as bringing a product to market - the cat recognition deeplearning AI is a product.
That led to an interesting paper and a lot of potential applications.
By "the hard work of bringing a product to market", I meant the process of perfecting the product for actual applications.
> By "the hard work of bringing a product to market", I meant the process of perfecting the product for actual applications
I'll have to disagree - "perfecting the product" is one of many roles required to bring a product to market. Other roles that are just as important are "dreamer/visionary", "practical starter/founder", "scale-up person". Sometimes one person can assume multiple roles, but rarely all roles, all of them are hard work.
He's made enormous contributions to human knowledge, but doesn't seem to be interested in the hard work of bringing a product to market.
He even left Coursera to return to theory.