{"id":76665,"date":"2021-09-13T11:32:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=76665"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:27:53","slug":"in-the-us-the-ai-industry-risks-becoming-winner-take-most-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/09\/13\/in-the-us-the-ai-industry-risks-becoming-winner-take-most-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"In the US, the AI Industry Risks Becoming Winner-Take-Most [Johnson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/us-ai-industry-risks-becoming-winner-take-most\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>In the US, the AI Industry Risks Becoming Winner-Take-Most<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wired.com by Khari Johnson<br \/>\n<em>A new study illustrates just how geographically concentrated AI activity has become.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A NEW STUDY\u00a0warns that the American AI industry is highly concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area and that this could prove to be a weakness in the long run. The Bay leads all other regions of the country in AI research and investment activity, accounting for about one-quarter of AI conference papers, patents, and companies in the US. Bay Area metro areas see levels of AI activity four times higher than other top cities for AI development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhen you have a high percentage of all AI activity in Bay Area metros, you may be overconcentrating, losing diversity, and getting groupthink in the algorithmic economy. It locks in a winner-take-most dimension to this sector, and that\u2019s where we hope that federal policy will begin to invest in new and different AI clusters in new and different places to provide a balance or counter,\u201d Mark Muro, policy director at the Brookings Institution and the study\u2019s coauthor, told WIRED.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_2u_eHHzRto\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;Algorithms are opinions embedded in code.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US, the AI Industry Risks Becoming Winner-Take-Most &#8212; from wired.com by Khari Johnson A new study illustrates just how geographically concentrated AI activity has become. 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