State of AI Report 2021

The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. We aim to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. The Report is produced by AI investorsNathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth.

Now in its fourth year, the State of AI Report 2021 is reviewed by AI practioners in industry and research, and features invited contributions from a range of well-known and up-and-coming companies and research groups. The Report considers the following key dimensions:

  • Research: Technology breakthroughs and capabilities.
  • Talent: Supply, demand and concentration of AI talent.
  • Industry: Areas of commercial application for AI and its business impact.
  • Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the emerging geopolitics of AI.
  • Predictions: What we believe will happen and a performance review to keep us honest.
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The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions

What was especially remarkable about Carlota Perez’s Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital was its timing: 2002 was the middle of the cold winter that followed the Dotcom Bubble, and here was Perez arguing that the IT revolution and the Internet were not in fact dead ideas, but in the middle of a natural transition to a new Golden Age.

Perez’s thesis was based on over 200 years of history and the patterns she identified in four previous technological revolutions. … Perez’s argument was that the four technological revolutions that proceeded the Age of Information and Telecommunications followed a similar cycle. Read More

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