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The massive document, produced by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, is packed full of data and graphs, and we've plucked out 15 that provide a snapshot of the current state of AI. AI research is booming: More than 120,000 peer-reviewed AI papers were published in 2019. The money continues to pour in. Global corporate investment in AI soared to nearly $68 billion in 2020, an increase of 40 percent over the year before. Corporations are steadily increasing their adoption of AI tools in such industries as telecom, financial services, and automotive.

First of all, what I mean by sad is not'pitiful', but I mean actually literally I am sad that it is this way. Every business could be helped by using AI. I think a lot of business owners know this: they contact me often and ask me about helping them use AI in their businesses. I charge them a consulting fee, but the vast majority of the time, their business just cannot afford to implement a full AI program. All this will require a team of software engineers working for months to deliver a single piece of software that can use AI to do one thing, like forecast sales.