“A majority of North American AI Ph.D.s — 65% — now go into industry, up from 44% in 2010, a sign of the growing role that large companies are playing both in AI research and implementation.
Even with the pandemic, private AI investment grew by 9.3% in 2020, a bigger increase than in 2019.
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence warned in a major report this week that ‘China possesses the might, talent, and ambition to surpass the United States as the world’s leader in AI in the next decade if current trends do not change.’”
