Stanford University 2021 Artificial Intelligence Index Report is published. The 4th issue of the report, which is considered the most comprehensive study in compiling the developments in the field of artificial intelligence, consists of seven chapters. Let's share a few details.
Chapter 1: Research & Development
In every major country and region, the highest proportion of peer-reviewed AI papers comes from academic institutions. In the United States, corporate affiliated research represents 19.2% of the total publications, whereas government is the second most important in China (15.6%) and the European Union (17.2%). In just the last six years, the number of AI-related publications on arXiv grew by more than sixfold, from 5,478 in 2015 to 34,736 in 2020.
Chapter 2: Technical Performance : Scientists use ML models to learn representations of chemical molecules for more effective chemical synthesis planning. PostEra, an AI startup used ML-based techniques to accelerate COVID-related drug discovery during the pandemic.
Chapter 3: The Economy
“Drugs, Cancer, Molecular, Drug Discovery” received the greatest amount of private AI investment in 2020, with more than USD 13.8 billion, 4.5 times higher than 2019. Brazil, India, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa are the countries with the highest growth in AI hiring from 2016 to 2020.
Chapter 4: AI Education
An AI Index survey conducted in 2020 suggests that the world’s top universities have increased their investment in AI education over the past four years. The number of courses that teach students the skills necessary to build or deploy a practical AI model on the undergraduate and graduate levels has increased by 102.9% and 41.7%, respectively, in the last four academic years.
Chapter 5: Ethical Challenges of AI Applications
The number of papers with ethics-related keywords in titles submitted to AI conferences has grown since 2015, though the average number of paper titles matching ethics-related keywords at major AI conferences remains low over the years.
Chapter 6: Diversity in AI
An AI Index survey suggests that female faculty make up just 16% of all tenure-track CS faculty at several universities around the world.
Chapter 7: AI Policy and National Strategies
Since Canada published the world’s first national AI strategy in 2017, more than 30 other countries and regions have published similar documents as of December 2020. The launch of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) AI Policy Observatory and Network of Experts on AI in 2020 promoted intergovernmental efforts to work together to support the development of AI for all.
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