Came across the state of AI report and didn’t see it posted here so thought it’d be interesting to have a discussion about the recently released report (second yearly one by Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth).

https://www.slideshare.net/StateofAIReport/state-of-ai-report-2019-151804430

What stands out for you?Did they miss anything important?

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Two things stand out for me so far:

1) The 2018 prediction they made that a major AI lab would go dark actually happend (MIRI lab and OpenAI -GPT2)

2) For me a as a fps CTF lover: the the Deepmind Quake III RL is wonderful to see. In 2019 they managed to include all the powerups which was a common criticism last year. (Updated blogpost here: https://deepmind.com/blog/capture-the-flag-science/)

I’m still going through the presentation myself so if I’ll see more interesting stuff I’ll add it to this thread.