With AI It's Adoption That Matters

Summary: How to measure the degree and value of AI adoption among companies or even countries is hard. Here's a beginning proposal on how to get started. We talk a great deal about whether there are enough data scientists to go around, whether our advancements in AI techniques are better than others, if there's sufficient access to data, and whether our chips and clouds are up to the task. But to really understand where the rubber meets the road in achieving the promised benefits of AI it's all about who has adopted the most and adopted it to their greatest benefit. This is true whether you're trying to assess one company versus another or even one country versus another.