Also, many of my students and colleagues working in the field of AI feel that there is an unfair competition between the academia and the industry. I do not think so. While industry focuses on the technology, academia should focus on the methodology. I believe that, methodology-wise, current practice of AI does not have any major secrets and, in fact, it is rather primitive and brute force. That is the reason why it is easily emulated given sufficient resource for reverse engineering. This is another reason why closed-door proprietary practice is doomed to be surpassed.