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Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com)
The popular narrative around artificial intelligence research is that it's mainly a war between China and the United States. Not so fast, says Europe. From a report: New data released today (Dec. 12; PDF file) by the AI Index, a project to track the advancement of artificial intelligence, shows a trend of Europe releasing more papers than either the US or China. The data was assembled from Scopus, a citation database owned by scientific publishing company Elsevier. If the current trend continues, China will soon overtake Europe in the number of papers published. The number of papers out of China grew 17% in 2017, compared to a 13% increase in the US, and 8% in Europe.
Europe boasts top universities doing work in AI, such as Oxford, University College London, and ETH Zurich, in addition to being home to branches of tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Alphabet's DeepMind operates out of London, and French president Emmanuel Macron has been particularly bullish on AI in Europe. Since being elected in 2017, he has already laid out initiatives to bolster the amount of research and corporate AI stationed in France. [...] The AI Index report credits the huge 70% increase in Chinese AI papers in 2008 to a government program promoting long-term research in artificial intelligence through 2020.
Europe boasts top universities doing work in AI, such as Oxford, University College London, and ETH Zurich, in addition to being home to branches of tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Alphabet's DeepMind operates out of London, and French president Emmanuel Macron has been particularly bullish on AI in Europe. Since being elected in 2017, he has already laid out initiatives to bolster the amount of research and corporate AI stationed in France. [...] The AI Index report credits the huge 70% increase in Chinese AI papers in 2008 to a government program promoting long-term research in artificial intelligence through 2020.
...on publishing AI research papers. Get to work people!
We're still leading the world in flying car research papers and cold fusion research papers. So when it comes to spending money on futuristic shit that will never actually happen in real life, America is still #1!
"Europe boasts top universities doing work in AI, such as Oxford, University College London, and ETH Zurich, "
The last one isn't in the EU and the first 2 won't be in a couple of months.
Problem solved.
I think it is pretty awesome that 44 countries can separately compete against 50 separate states.
What is your exact point again?
And when did Europe become a country?
Europe is an entire continent, the US and China are countries.
Socialism is an economic system; communism is a political system. You appear to be mixing them up.
Table-ized A.I.
Borders are interesting, and not as fixed as people want to think.
The United States is a country, but each State is a State. for EU it isn't a country but a Union, which contains a bunch of countries which are most a single state.
The United Kingdom is a bunch of countries as well.
So in terms of comparison. the US, Europe (EU), and China have roughly the same land mass and have large economies.
So it makes more sense compare them that way vs. France vs the US. because it would be closer to compare France against New York.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The US might have less universities doing AI research, but the US has vastly more and vastly bigger corporations putting a shitton more money into their AI programs.
Probably Microsoft, Google and Facebook alone invest several times more than all the european companies in the field.That means they basically, the US simply buys the finished students when they are done with their university papers all over the world. China would probably do the same, but it's harder for them to actually attract the scientists and programmers. And the really interesting and especially the paying things with deep learning are not done in universities. Deep learning is known for decades now, and now companies have seen this is a field where one can create products and monetize.
Those US companies also have the actually huge amount of data needed to train all this pseudo AI which is in reality deep learning. In the EU, the data protection laws are actually good for the citizens, but it of course hampers companies to monetize all that big data stuff with AI.
Typical slashdot editor mistake writing an article with lots of errors to get hits I guess.
Borders are interesting
Ahh, but which border is the most interesting?
I vote for the border between Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Enclave.
This border has a very long history. For many centuries it was part of the border between the Russian Empire and "Europe" in the form Prussian Koenigsburg and the Holy Roman Empire.
Today, it still forms the border between Russia and "Europe" in the form of the European Union. So pretty boring, right? NO! Because, although the border is exactly the same, they have SWITCHED SIDES. Today, Russian in to the west, and "Europe" is to the east.
And we in Europe must be ready to fight it.
I'd say it doesn't make sense to even compare them in the first place. "Most AI papers published" is just a penis measuring contest. Usually promulgated by people who don't work in AI, and are just looking for any way to use other people's accomplishments to stoke their own egos.
Are you a lawyer? How did you know about this?
Okay, Australia vs Antarctica
go!
The quantity of the papers published doesn't necessarily reflect on their quality.
3rd place USA, 2nd place Europe, but Skynet has a commanding lead with 6x10^23 new AI research papers this year.
your higher education system and providing government grants for research results in more science being done. I know, crazy talk, right?
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Most of the indices we use don't incorporate the Chinese-only papers, just the ones published in English.
Come back when you actually count those.
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And if you can't comprehend that you used the sequence of letters "state" to spell out two entirely different words, then you can just wave your hands around and say nothing using a lot of words.
It is actually because of the differences in meaning that the different words are used, and it is because of the difference in meaning that the different borders are chosen!
Do NOT underestimate the penguins! At least they had the brains to not vote a half baked encryption law into existence.
They don't do CS, they send everybody who wants higher education to med school. Health professionals are their main export, so it seems a bit silly to try to make them look uneducated. Yeah, those dumb pinko Cubans, they're only smart enough to be medical doctors! LOL
A country is an entity with a representative in the UN.
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
The headline doesn't make logical sense to me. China and US are countries. Europe is a frigging continent. Also... I don't care.
Using US OS, US designed CPU, US designed GPU.
Parts made in China.
AI in Europe is just another decade of the AI winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
isn't someone to listen to.
... if they used Trump's IQ as the "intelligence" goal post.
[I know I'll get modded down, and I think it's proper. I just don't like Trump. Excuse my manners.]
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
So, I guess that is their are so many NPC's in the EU!
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
Borders are interesting, and not as fixed as people want to think.
The United States is a country, but each State is a State. for EU it isn't a country but a Union, which contains a bunch of countries which are most a single state.
The United Kingdom is a bunch of countries as well.
You had me up until here.
The EU is a proper union of disparate states that agree to co-operate under common rules for trade, human rights, et al. including a system of justice for cross border cases.
The UK is a singular political entity under a with a unified parliament. The individual countries in the UK are more akin to the individual states in the US. They have varying degrees of legislative power but rarely can overrule the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Someone living in Scotland votes for both the Scottish parliament and the UK parliament. Only a few places like the Isle of Man are independent of the UK parliament.
The UK and EU are very different as governing bodies.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Not at all. Those very difference are what aligns a typical US state to an entire country. Or are you saying that Arkansas and California are both identical in the USA? Because from any other country they effectively look like two different countries and sure as fuck act like it.
There's a reason the USA is called the United States and why those very states govern themselves and the power of the federal government is incredibly limited.
You can bullshit by drawing lines, but you can't make up new governance systems.