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Stanford Releases Report on the Current State of AI

Earlier this month, Stanford University released The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report.

The new Stanford AI100 report is the second in a series following the inaugural AI100 report published five years ago in September 2016. Stanford plans to continue to publish the A1100 report once every five years for a hundred years or longer.

The vision and direction of the 2021 AI100 report was set by the standing committee members consisting of Chairperson Peter Stone at The University of Texas at Austin and Sony AI, along with Erik Brynjolfsson, Russ Altman, and Percy Liang at Stanford University, Vincent Conitzer at Duke University and the University of Oxford, Mary L. Gray at Microsoft Research, Barbara Grosz at Harvard University, Ayanna Howard at The Ohio State University, Patrick Lin at California Polytechnic State University, James Manyika at McKinsey & Company, Sheila McIlraith at the University of Toronto, Liz Sonenberg at The University of Melbourne, and Judy Wajcman at the London School of Economics and The Alan Turing Institute.

“In the last five years, the field of AI has made major progress in almost all its standard sub-areas, including vision, speech recognition and generation, natural language processing (understanding and generation), image and video generation, multi-agent systems, planning, decision-making, and integration of vision and motor control for robotics,” wrote the researchers. “In addition, breakthrough applications emerged in a variety of domains including games, medical diagnosis, logistics systems, autonomous driving, language translation, and interactive personal assistance.”

“Whereas AI research has traditionally been the purview of computer scientists and researchers studying cognitive processes, it has become clear that all areas of human inquiry, especially the social sciences, need to be included in a broader conversation about the future of the field,” the researchers concluded.

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Download the full report here: https://ai100.stanford.edu/2021-report/gathering-strength-gathering-storms-one-hundred-year-study-artificial-intelligence