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We are pleased to introduce the AI Index 2018 Annual Report. This year’s report accomplishes two
objectives. First, it refreshes last year’s metrics. Second, it provides global context whenever
possible. The former is critical to the Index’s mission — grounding the AI conversation means
tracking volumetric and technical progress on an ongoing basis. But the latter is also essential.
There is no AI story without global perspective. The 2017 report was heavily skewed towards North
American activities. This reflected a limited number of global partnerships established by the
project, not an intrinsic bias. This year, we begin to close the global gap. We recognize that there is
a long journey ahead — one that involves further collaboration and outside participation — to make
this report truly comprehensive.
Still, we can assert that AI is global. 83 percent of 2017 AI papers on Scopus originate outside the
U.S. 28 percent of these papers originate in Europe — the largest percentage of any region.
University course enrollment in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is increasing
all over the world, most notably at Tsinghua in China, whose combined AI + ML 2017 course
enrollment was 16x larger than it was in 2010. And there is progress beyond just the United States,
China, and Europe. South Korea and Japan were the 2nd and 3rd largest producers of AI patents in
2014, after the U.S. Additionally, South Africa hosted the second Deep Learning Indaba conference,
one of the world’s largest ML teaching events, which drew over 500 participants from 20+ African
countries.
AI’s diversity is not just geographic. Today, over 50% of the Partnership on AI’s members are
nonprofits — including the ACLU, Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, and the United Nations
Development Programme. Also, there is heightened awareness of gender and racial diversity’s
importance to progress in AI. For example, we see increased participation in organizations like
AI4ALL and Women in Machine Learning (WiML), which encourage involvement by
underrepresented groups.
Introduction to the AI Index 2018 Annual Report
AI INDEX 2018
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