The state of AI in 2021

What’s significant for AI in 2021?

According to the annual State of AI report A.I. safety is missing and we are about to see an explosion in Semiconductors and record funding this year into AI startups. The report published yearly by UK investors Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth since 2018 is highly respected by the industry with a high degree of accuracy.

Now in its fourth year, the State of AI Report 2021 the Report considers five areas:

Research, Industry (as commercial application), Talent, Politics (as regulation of AI), and Predictions for 2022.

Here is the summary of this year's report:

1. Biology: Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking over structural biology, heavily impacting drug development.
2. Transformers, a popular framework for creating natural language processing models, are currently being used to many additional machine learning use cases, such as protein structure prediction and computer vision.
3. Language models that are large: The powerful and contentious AI technologies that support many of the services we use every day are expanding and contracting. Individual nations are also aiming to establish their own specialised LLMs.
4. AI talent:?Academic organisations don't have enough computational resources to complete their studies. 88% of "elite AI academics" have gotten Big Tech financing, according to the researchers.
5. AI safety: Fewer than 50 researchers are working on it full-time at the major AI labs—which means that there are a lot more individuals whose full-time job it is to create this tech rather than worry about its repercussions.
6. Semiconductors: the global chip shortage is only increasing demand. Startups in the space are accelerating in a big way, and both countries and corporations are looking to make the semi supply chain more efficient. "We think 2022 will be the year of the semiconductor", Nathan Benaich.

The Full report: https://www.stateof.ai/2021-report-launch.html