Statistics related to AI

Following analysis done by AI State Index1, let’s review some statistics related to Artificial Intelligence, that will fully show how important this market is becoming (or already is). It’s crucial to understand that we are still early when it comes to applied AI, and most of those statistics will grow substantially in the upcoming years. The reason for that is most of the cutting-edge research is still far away from day-to-day business applications either because of the costs of the hardware or the required expertise to apply it. I expect the full AI boom to come within the next ten years when every company will need to implement AI elements to be competitive even at the local scale. This will come in pair with the democratisation of AI: the cost and difficulty of implementation of most algorithms will largely decrease. AI applications will be as available as general cloud storage is now.

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