The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Index Report, produced by Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI Institute, “tracks, collates, distills, and visualize data” concerning AI for the purposes of providing unbiased and thoroughly-vetted information to “policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the general public.” The report organizes the data into dimensions corresponding to activity in – and technical progress of – AI in the arena(s) of research and development (R&D), conference participation, technical performance, the global economy, education, autonomous systems, public perception, and societal considerations. Datasets examined include Elsevier (Scorpus database) Journal publications, electronic preprints on arXiv, and Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) papers, Conference attendance, AAAI statistics, ImageNet, Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), McKinsey’s Global AI survey, and others. The report also provides tools for research as well as for navigating the volume of data presented namely the Global AI Vibrancy Tool, AI Index arXiv Monitor, and the Google Drive containing raw data available to the public.
