Data: Emerging Technology Observatory Map of Science; Chart: Axios Visuals
China leads the U.S. as a top producer of research in more than half of AI's hottest fields, according to new data from Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) shared first with Axios.
Why it matters: The findings reveal important nuances about the global race between the U.S. and China to lead AI advances and set crucial standards for the technology and how it is used around the world.
Key findings: CSET's Emerging Technology Observatory team found global AI research more than doubled between 2017 and 2022.
Research in robotics grew slower than in vision and natural language processing by just 54% and made up about 15% of all AI research.
What they're saying: "The fact that research is growing so quickly, in so many directions, underscores the need for federal investment in basic measurement evaluation on the scientific techniques we need to ensure that AI getting deployed in the real world is safe, secure and understandable," said Arnold. But appropriations for the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, which is tasked with identifying those measurements, were recently cut.
The big picture: The top five producers of sheer numbers of AI research papers in the world are Chinese institutions, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Yes, but: At the country level, the U.S. had the top spot in producing highly cited articles.
"China is absolutely a world leader in AI research, and in many areas, likely the world leader," Arnold said, adding the country is active across a range of research areas, including increasingly fundamental research.
Caveat: The data only accounts for research papers published in English, and doesn't capture scientific work in other languages.
How it works: CSET's Map of Science groups together articles that cite each other often, because they have topics or concepts in common, into clusters of research. (It doesn't mean all papers on LLMs, for example, are in the top cluster. Some may appear in other clusters.)
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China tops the U.S. on AI research in over half of the hottest fields: report - Axios
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