Yeah, I'm pretty sure that these rankings are bullshit.
If you look at, e.g. universities by number of papers at neurips (ok, just one measure, but related to the AI boom), none of the UK universities crack the top 10; Oxford comes in at 12th, Cambridge at 18th, and Imperial isn't even on the list: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/185pdax/d_...
If you look at, e.g. universities by number of papers at neurips (ok, just one measure, but related to the AI boom), none of the UK universities crack the top 10; Oxford comes in at 12th, Cambridge at 18th, and Imperial isn't even on the list: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/185pdax/d_...