7 AI Index 2021 Charts Europeans should be worried about
Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence report provides a vast amount of distilled data to understand how the field of AI is moving forward under different categories. Should Europeans be worried?
This short article highlights several charts from Stanford’s AI Index Report 2021 that should make European citizens think about its implications for the future competitivy of their economy in a global market. Although some countries like France, Germany and the nordics tend to perform better than the average European Union, the EU27 lacks behind AI world leaders in several categories.
The complete report is available here and all the figures from it included for reference purposes are used under the Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) as allowed by its authors.
1 — Private investment very far from AI world leaders
2 — AI Adoption in organizations below average
3 — Relevance of European AI publications declining
4— Relevance of European AI patents declining
5— No clear AI Ethics common principles
6 — Low relative AI skill penetration rate*
*A country’s relative AI skill penetration rate of 2 in one specific sector means that the average penetration of AI skills in that country is two times the global average across the same set of occupations in that sector. Only Germany makes it to the top three in two categories (and in one of them the index is close to 1).
7 — AI specialized programs offering falling short and not well distributed
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