[arketyp]

I understand your distinction, I think, but I would say it is more engineering than ever. It's like the early days of the steam engine or firearms development. It's not a hard science, not formal analysis, it's engineering: tinkering, testing, experimenting, iterating.

[peddling-brink]

> tinkering, testing, experimenting, iterating

But that describes science. http://imgur.com/1h3K2TT/

[amelius]

AI requires a lot of engineering. However, the engineering is not what makes working in AI interesting. It's the plumbing, basically.