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15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021
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The 2021 AI Index provides insight into jobs, publications, diversity, and more.
Key facts
- In 2018, it took 6.2 minutes to train the best system; in 2020 it took 47 seconds
- If you haven’t had time to read the AI Index Report for 2021, which clocks in at 222 pages, don’t worry—they've got you covered
- Of the 200 activities of daily life shown therein, AI systems had the toughest time recognizing the activity of coffee drinking in both 2019 and 2020
- Data from LinkedIn shows that Brazil, India, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa had the highest growth in AI hiring from 2016 to 2020
Summary
Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum covering AI and biomedical engineering. If you haven’t had time to read the AI Index Report for 2021, which clocks in at 222 pages, don’t worry—they've got you covered. Deeply interested readers can dive into the report to learn more; it contains chapters on R&D, technical performance, the economy, AI education, ethical challenges of AI applications, diversity in AI, and AI policy and national strategies. AI research is booming: More than 120,000 peer-reviewed AI papers were published in 2019.