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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!
Currently the US is incontinent.
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.
Ivy League universities give you access to the alumni network which is the most important thing to have if you are looking for a well paying career.
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.
Don't forget the freedom to snub your nose to other people, with a smug sense of superiority.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I am sure the UK is not moving out of Europe, and last I checked, Switzerland was, and always has been in Europe!
Why do people always read "EU" when they see "Europe"?
Gosh you think? Maybe that's why the thing you quoted said "Europe" not "EU".
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