AI is expected to be the next revolutionary step, so with losses at Deepmind pilling up to 1billion pound [1], it is hard to imagine that Alphabet can simply tell their shareholders "We just want to park these smart people here so that they don't do great things elsewhere" and that some (or all) of the 'smart' minds are driven by profit maximization at all times.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/1fc6db8a-b919-11e9-96bd-8e884d3ea...