To abuse an old quote, "AI" doesn't exist in the same way a 747 isn't a giant mechanical eagle.
All the "AI" tasks above are hyper-localizing things that interact with the world, but they aren't entirely integratable into something coherent. (Something we now have to call AGI because the fad establishment has cooped the term AI for lesser purposes.)
I find it slightly intriguing that a gatekeeper into the World of Funding™ is directly observing a disconnect between quick burn fads and long term usefulness. Will there be new offshoot Long Game funds? Software-based long-term problems these days don't take gargantuan funding, but people need enough to quit their job and live off of while working towards the future. These Long Game problems are especially pernicious because sometimes your first payoff isn't for years down the line. In today's Fundapalooza Party Round Frat Bro Extravaganza® land, you need users, customers, and sales within the first two weeks or you're dead in the water.
I'd rather see a pie in the sky fund where, if you can convince the gate keepers you have a chance at changing the world in the next 3-7 years, your team gets $500k per person up front to pursue your goals. That may sound like a lot for up-front nothingness, but we're living in an age of cash hoarding immortal corporations. Apple could create a $20 billion fund, get 40,000 people working on change-the-fucking-world problems, and not even feel the loss of cash under their kilometer-sized tempurpedic mattress.
Are we better than buskers? Do we have to be starving artists until we make it big or should we be taken care of and coddled while we work in minimalism? The only problem stopping Them[1] from funding every person with a plausible but at-first-glance crazy idea[2] is the problem of selecting the right people, not lack of funding in the world.
The only way to make those goals happen yourself these days is to first do a fast-fad application, sell it, then use that as your base of funding. That has a long and uncertain cycle time though and you can end up overcapitalized and distracted (let's all buy teslas and $1000 jeans and $20,000 road bikes!) unless you pull a Musker[3].
Let's give crazy a chance.
[1]: You know, Them. Them people with money.
[2]: Free energy need not apply.
[3]: Pulling a Musker is very different from starting out with nothing though. You've got tons of connected, capable, and rich people in-the-know connections by then, so "losing it all" isn't as special as it seems.