India, Sept. 24 -- Artificial intelligence, when it reaches its full potential, might replace humans at work. But the race to build AI of that potential is being run with an extremely small pool of human researchers. It is primarily a two-horse race between the US and China. While the former is still drawing talent from across the world, the latter is primarily working with homegrown talent. India, unfortunate as it sounds, is just a preparatory school of producing AI talent. These findings are from research by Damien Ma and Binyi Yang at Carnegie China, which draws on information collected from papers accepted in NeurIPS, one of the most prestigious machine-learning conferences, to track the global elite among AI researchers.

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