Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. This report shows how we got here.

Artificial intelligence is getting cheaper, better at the tasks we assign it, and more widespread--but concerns over bias, ethics, and regulatory oversight still remain. At a time when AI is becoming accessible to everyone, Stanford University put together a sweeping 2022 report analyzing the ins and outs of the growing field. Here are some of the highlights. The number of publications alone on the topic tell a story: They doubled in the last decade, from 162,444 in 2010 to 334,497 in 2021. The most popular AI categories that researchers and others published on were pattern recognition, machine learning, and algorithms.