I 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 de

I 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>