China announces that the US has the most influential scholars in the field of artificial intelligence
China recently announced the AI 2000 Ranking of globally influential scholars in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) 2021.
Accordingly, the US accounts for nearly 58%, gaining absolute dominance.
The 2021 AI 2000 Ranking is conducted by Tsinghua University and is automatically ranked based on computer system calculations by tracking the cited papers of global scholars published at top conferences and journals from 2010-2020.
The list is divided into 20 fields in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, including robotics, speech recognition, databases, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, chip technology and the Internet of Things...
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In addition, the 10 institutions with the most scholars on the list are mostly located in the US, such as Google, Microsoft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Facebook..., while China has only one place, Tsinghua University.
However, China still ranks first among the 10 countries most interested in artificial intelligence research, with the US ranking second, followed by Germany, the UK, Canada, Japan, France, Italy, Australia and South Korea./.