According to Chinese tech giant Tencent, in 2017 there were already about 300,000 “AI researchers and practitioners” worldwide,[6] and the 2019 Global AI Talent Report, by Jean-François Gagné, Grace Kiser, and Yoan Mantha, counted some 22,400 AI experts publishing original research—of whom around 4,000 were judged to be highly influential.[7] And according to Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, AI researchers in 2021 generated more than 496,000 publications and over 141,000 patent filings.[8] In 2022, global corporate investment in AI was $189 billion, a
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