Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stats News: AI Is Actively Watching You In 75 Countries

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the impact and progress of AI highlighted the strong state of AI surveillance worldwide, the lack of adherence to common privacy principles in companies' data privacy statement, the growing adoption of AI by global businesses, and the perception of AI as a major risk by institutional investors. Using just the first fifteen minutes of a patient's raw electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, the tool produces a score that places patients into different risk categories. Patients in the top quartile were nearly seven times more likely to die of cardiovascular death when compared to the low-risk group in the bottom quartile. U.S. AI and machine learning startups raised $6.62 billion so far in 2019, and international startups raised $6.79 in the same period. The global total for all of 2018 was $19.5 billion [Crunchbase News] The North America AI chip market is estimated to reach $30.62 billion in 2027, up from $2.5 billion in 2018 [ResearchAndMarkets] The Asia Pacific AI chip market is estimated to reach $22.27 billion in 2027, up from $1.03 billion in 2018 [ResearchAndMarkets] "An AI-equipped surveillance camera would be not a mere recording device, but could be made into something closer to an automated police officer"--Edward Snowden "When you get into the millions, you can really start to generate the levels at which humans stop understanding the correlations, and the machines start to understand the correlations"--Ricky Knox, co-founder and CEO, Tandem Bank "As AI gets better at performing the routine tasks traditionally done by humans, only the hardest ones will be left for us to do. But wrestling with only difficult decisions all day long is stressful and unpleasant"--Fred Benenson, former vice president of data, Kickstarter "AI can do things previously unimaginable with the volume, velocity, variety and veracity of big data. It can deliver an edge given the information intensity of all of the processes in asset management"--Amin Rajan, CEO, Create-Research "By 2025, a quarter of all miles driven will be driven by on-demand services"--Amy Wyron, vice president of business solutions, Gett