The annual Artificial Intelligence Index Report, now in its seventh edition, is an authoritative 400-page analysis, aimed at giving scientists, journalists and policy-makers, and the general public, a more nuanced understanding of the AI universe. It is published by the Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (HAI) group at Stanford University.
The report’s headline findings show the soaring costs of AI breakthroughs, dominated by the big industry players working in “closed” AI. But it also reveals new levels of collaboration between big tech and academia, and a vibrant “open AI” strand—the area friendliest to artistic creativity and to shared learning. HAI has highlighted the need to invest more resources into publicly available research resources.
