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>(On Tuesday, Baidu announced it had achieved the world's best results on a key artificial intelligence benchmark related to image identification, besting Googl
by desdiv 11y ago
>(On Tuesday, Baidu announced it had achieved the world's best results on a key artificial intelligence benchmark related to image identification, besting Google and Microsoft.)
And a week later was found to have cheated in said test, apologized, and withdrew its results[0].
[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/538111/why-and-how-baidu-cheated-an-artificial-intelligence-test http://www.technologyreview.com/view/538111/why-and-how-baid...
- unoti 11y agoI wonder if that incident is an example of their "clear-eyed view of the world and the competition", or if it's more of an example of their "remarkable lack of bravado". More seriously, the cheating incident linked in the above article could be an example of the autonomy of people at Baidu. The breaking of the rules had to do with testing too many times in a single period of time, via multiple email addresses. They might have got a little over-enthusiastic letting multiple teams work on it in parallel.
- karpathy 11y agoI have no affiliation with Baidu but I'd like to defend them on this point a bit because it seems to me that they are getting quite a lot more hate than they deserve. Baidu had a without-a-doubt strong and at the very least a very near state of the art visual recognition system. Then a group of people within the company tried to squeeze out all the last few 0.01% they could with questionable means. When people erase all context and say Baidu cheated, it sounds as if there was a wide, organized top-down effort within Baidu to make their bad system look good with blatant cheating. None of which, in my mind, was the case. A slap on the wrist is more appropriate than burning at stake. </endrant>