AI Stats News: 69% Of IT Executives Say They Cannot Respond To Cybersecurity Threats Without AI

The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the role of AI in cybersecurity defense and in scoring standardized tests, the relationships between data migrating to the cloud and data modernization, lax security standards for IoT devices, and that the U.S. still leads the global race for AI domination but that China is making more rapid progress. Written essays on standardized tests in 18 states in the U.S. are currently graded by natural language processing (NLP) software ("automated essay scoring engines") with only a small percentage of students' essays--it varies between 5% to 20%--randomly selected for a human grader to double check the machine's work [VICE] Based on a 100-point scale, the U.S. leads the global AI race with 44.2 points, followed by China with 32.3 points and the European Union with 23.5 points; The U.S. came out on top in talent, research, development, and hardware, while China led in adoption and data. Airbus Americas has been using AI from AppZen to review expense reports and determine if they are in compliance with company policies; in the first partial year of the technology's implementation Airbus paid off its initial investment of $50,000 and pocketed about $50,000 more; the division expects to save $100,000 this year and at least $200,000 in 2020 in the Americas; worldwide implementation is expected to result in several millions of dollars in savings [The Wall Street Journal]