{
  "title": "Talent in the 2018 report",
  "report_year": 2018,
  "period": "Historical snapshot: June 2018. Dates and populations are specified per row.",
  "methodology": "Talent estimates, paper authorship, and conference attendance have different denominators. They should not be combined into a single workforce estimate. Diversity data were incomplete.",
  "source_deck": "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vS_RSaVAQib2P8LtDxBJLCvdWlixK9WmxVhB9HUoNNsXdXR0Ts8Il1jB4967EiHGbxxLEYK1V540VRQ/pub",
  "web_edition_date": "2026-10-11",
  "rows": [
    {
      "measure": "Specialist talent estimate",
      "value": "22,000",
      "definition": "Element AI estimate of PhD-educated AI researchers and engineers.",
      "printed_slide": null,
      "pdf_page": 57,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2018.pdf#page=57"
    },
    {
      "measure": "ICML papers with Google/DeepMind author",
      "value": "6.3%",
      "definition": "Share of ICML 2017 papers in the cited analysis.",
      "printed_slide": null,
      "pdf_page": 61,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2018.pdf#page=61"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Women among NIPS registrations",
      "value": "17%",
      "definition": "Share of registrations in 2017; not all AI researchers.",
      "printed_slide": null,
      "pdf_page": 68,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2018.pdf#page=68"
    }
  ]
}