The 2024 AI Index Report, produced by Stanford University's HAI, is the seventh edition and provides a comprehensive overview of AI trends, technical advancements, public perceptions, and geopolitical dynamics. It includes new data on AI training costs, responsible AI landscape, and the impact of AI on science and medicine. The report emphasizes the need for unbiased, rigorous data to inform various stakeholders about AI's complex landscape.
The AI Index Report aims to track and visualize data related to AI, offering insights into its development and impact on society. Key findings include AI's varying performance on tasks, industry dominance in AI research, escalating costs of training models, the US leading in AI model development, lack of standardization in responsible AI, a surge in generative AI investment, evidence of AI enhancing worker productivity, acceleration of scientific progress due to AI, increase in US AI regulations, and growing global awareness and concern about AI's impact.
The report also covers diversity in AI, noting the demographic differences among AI developers and users, and the need for more inclusive datasets and perspectives to avoid perpetuating societal biases. It calls for enhanced tracking of diversity trends in AI and urges stakeholders to address the scarcity of demographic data in areas like sexual orientation.