AI Index's 2018 report is just great collection of data on state of things in AI. My favorite highlights: - AI papers count from Europe > China > USA - Citati

AI Index's 2018 report is just great collection of data on state of things in AI. My favorite highlights: - AI papers count from Europe > China > USA - Citation impact from USA > Europe > China - Migratory authors have highest citation impact - CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML attendance is each doubled in past 3 years - WiML attendance actually dropped in 2018 - Interest in robotics in terms of ROS downloads is seeing growth of roughly 50% yoy starting 2015, China contributing half of it - Active AI startups have increased by 2X in past 3 years - 71% of job applicants in AI are male - Number of robot installations are increasing by 50% in China since 2016, other countries have negligible growth - 5X more media articles have positive sentiment for AI than negative (of course, measured by AI :)) - Mention of AI have been at least doubling in US Congress since 2016 - Training time (but not total compute) for ImageNet has been decreased by 16X in past 18 months through 5 record breaking milestones - Metric improvements in vision related tasks are stagnating while many NLP tasks saw massive bump - AI is better than humans at 3 more tasks in 2018: Chinese-English translation, playing Quake III, Prostate cancer grading