> There's secrecy within most for-profit entities, what makes AI so different? It's not about AI vs other fields, it's about research vs. engineering. Admitted

> There's secrecy within most for-profit entities, what makes AI so different? It's not about AI vs other fields, it's about research vs. engineering. Admittedly, that line is more blurry than most, especially in highly technologically competitive fields like AI and graphics (and less blurry in fields where the research-to-implementation gap is larger, like PL or algorithmic complexity).