This document provides statistics about the history and growth of artificial intelligence (AI). It discusses key developments in AI, including the first use of the term in 1956, advances in machine reading and language processing, and recent models from OpenAI and Microsoft. The document also summarizes statistics on public awareness of and attitudes toward AI, the size and growth of the AI market, and uses of AI in marketing.
2. AI FROM THE HISTORICAL POINT
OF VIEW
1. The very first mention of artificial
intelligence (AI) was made by John
McCarthy in 1956. (University of
Washington)
2. In 2006, Oren Etzioni, Michele Banko,
and Michael Cafarella coined the term
âmachine readingâ a process capable of
âautonomous understanding of the text.â
(Forbes)
3. In 2018 a Chinese language-processing
AI, created by Alibaba, outperformed
human intellect during a Stanford reading
and comprehension test. (Forbes)
4. In 2020, OpenAi presented a beta version of
ChatGPT (based on GPT-3) - a smart model
capable of creating human-level tasks from
creating qualitative content to writing code.
(OpenAI)
5. In 2021, OpenAI launched DALL-E (and later
DALL-E 2) - a model that can process and
understand images. That moved AI much closer
to comprehension of visual content. (OpenAI)
6. In February 2023, Microsoft announced the
release of AI-powered Bing search as well as
Edge browser. The search will be more precise
and answers more complete. (Microsoft)
3. "... (AI) is scary good. We are
not far from dangerously
strong AI."
Elon Musk
7. In March 2023, OpenAI launched GPT-4, one of the
most powerful AI models so far, capable of producing
safer and more useful responses and solving more
complex problems. (OpenAI)
8. The last few years have shown a very rapid and
powerful AI development. So powerful that Elon Musk,
Evan Sharp, Steve Wozniak, and other AI researchers
signed an open letter to pause AI development for the
next six months. (Future of Life Institute)
4. FAMILIARITY WITH AI,
OPINION ON IT, AND ITS
ADOPTION
9. 53% of Americans with a postgraduate degree were
able to identify the AI uses across six multiple-choice
questions. (Pew Research)
10. 75% of young US adults (aged 18-29) are more
familiar with artificial intelligence and its use
compared to those 45% aged 65 and up. (Pew
Research)
11. Approximately 45% of US adults are both excited
and concerned about AI use in daily life. (Pew
Research)
High Medium Low
0 25 50 75 100 125
US adults
Men
Women
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
Aged 18-29
30-49
50-65
65+
Postgrad
College grad
Some college
HS or less
Upper income
Middle income
Lower income
US adults with higher levels of education and income demonstrate greater
awareness of AI in daily life (% of AI awareness)
Pew Research Center
30 38 31
38
38
38
38
36
40
39
40
37
38
33
39
44
35
33
41
38
38
23
34
14
23
40
35
38
29
18
53
46
28
14
52
33
15
26
37
28
47
39
21
28
25
31
44
14
15
27
51
15
26
48
5. 12. 31% of those excited by AI use expect it to
âmake life and society better.â (Pew Research)
13. 13% of those excited by AI use think it can help
to save time and make work more efficient. (Pew
Research)
14. 19% of respondents concerned about AI
growth worry about human job losses. (Pew
Research)
15. 39% of companies use AI for robotic process
automation. (McKinsey)
16. 34% of businesses employ AI for computer
vision improvement. (McKinsey)
17. Almost a third of businesses have either
implemented or started to implement AI-driven
solutions in their companies. (Statista)
Equally concerned
and excited - 45%
More concerned
than excited - 37%
More excited than
concerned - 18%
No answer - 1%
% of US adults expressed regarding AI
Pew Research Center
6. AI SPENDING,
GROWTH BUDGETS,
AND DEVELOPMENT
18. 63% of respondents expect their
firmsâ investment in AI to grow over
the next three years. (McKinsey)
19. $142.3 billion is the value of the
global AI market in 2023 according
to Statista.
20. The AI market will grow by 39.4%
annually at a CAGR by 2028.
(Bloomberg)
21. The global AI market will increase
to $422.37+ billion dollars in value by
2028. (Bloomberg)
22.. Investments in AI-driven
startups grew by $5 million dollars
from 2020 to 2023. (Statista)
23. Tencent holds the biggest AI
patent in the world. (Statista)
7. 24. The global AI market will
reach a size of over half a
trillion U.S. dollars by 2024.
(Statista)
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is projected to
reach $21 billion dollars by 2030 (Statista)
market
value
in
billion
US
dollars
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5
10
15
20
25
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
25. The chatbot market is believed to
reach approximately $1.25 billion
dollars in 2025. (Statista)
26. The global AI software market will
have around $118.6 billion dollars
market size in 2025. (Statista)
4.4 5.5 6.6 7.8 9.2 10.9 12.8 15.2 17.9 21
8. AI USE IN MARKETING, CONTENT
MARKETING, AND SMM
37%
27. 37% of marketing
and advertising
companies use
generative AI. (Statista)
28. Generative AI content from artists and
musicians on social media was most
appealing to US citizens. (Statista)
29. 61.4% of marketers have utilized artificial
intelligence in their marketing activities.
(Influencer Marketing Hub)
30. 44.4% of content marketers have used AI
to produce content. (Influencer Marketing
Hub)
31. 88% of marketing professionals claimed
that AI helped them personalize the
customer journey across channels. (Statista)
9. 47%
90%
35% 30%
USA, UK, CANADA, INDIA
35 COUNTRIES
USA USA
of respondents from
the United States,
United Kingdom, India,
and Canada shared
they trusted artificial
intelligence to target
ads. (Statista) - 32
of marketing specialists
in 35 countries
employed AI tools to
automate user
interactions. (Statista)
- 34
of marketers from the US shared
that the AI and ML innovations
were too complex to utilize or
deploy. (Statista) - 33
of marketers from the
US said that AI and ML
costs were too high as
well. (Statista) - 35
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