Annual Report for Artificial Intelligence: Nothing Fake Here

January 30, 2020

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a brand new year and time to view 2019 in perspective. If you are interested in artificial intelligence, then you should check out the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence of Stanford University (HAI)’s yearly artificial intelligence index. The official name is the AI Index 2019 Report, which is a comprehensive roundup of AI studies, learn more in the HAI News post, “Introducing The AI Index 2019 Report.” The AI Index Report is in its third year with the prior two publications establishing it as a prominent information source about AI developments. The latest version has nine chapters spanning a broad range of topics and delivering insights.

The AI Index Report uses an interdisciplinary approach by studying design, analyzing and distilling AI global impact patterns in various industries, research, and public perception. The report is written by the AI Index Steering Committee, consisting of experts across academia and industries with over thirty-five sponsors and data contributors. As with any report there are many wonderful facts to learn about AI:

“China now publishes as many AI journals and conference papers per year as Europe, having passed the USA in 2006. The Field-Weighted Citation Impact of USA publications is still about 50% higher than China’s.
In the US, the share of AI jobs grew from 0.3% in 2012 to 0.8% of total jobs in 2019. AI labor demand is growing, especially in high-tech services and the manufacturing sector.
At the graduate level, AI has rapidly become the most popular specialization among computer science PhD students in North America, with over twice as many students as the second most popular specialization (security/information assurance). In 2018, over 21% of graduating Computer Science PhDs specialized in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.
There is a significant increase in AI-related legislation in congressional records, committee reports, and legislative transcripts around the world. “

The AI Index Report is bound to stay around and grow as an important resource for the AI industry, especially if it proves to be free of ads and pushing products. Honest reports about industries are becoming rarer and even academia is polluted by dollar signs.

Whitney Grace, January 30, 2019

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under AI, News

Comments

Comments are closed.

Search the site
Subscribe to Beyond Search
Feature archive
News archive

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.