Chinese search giant Baidu disqualified from AI test

stapp · Jun 4, 2015

Chinese search giant Baidu has been disqualified from an artificial intelligence test in which it appeared to beat Google and Microsoft.

The test, in May, looked at how well computers recognise images.

But it has now emerged that Baidu submitted far more tests than the rules allowed, meaning its results were not comparable with others in the competition.

The firm has apologised for "this mistake".

Its win has now been cancelled and it has been banned from similar challenges for a year.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33005728

Dermot7 · Jun 5, 2015

The sport of training software to act intelligently just got its first cheating scandal. Last month Chinese search company Baidu announced that its image recognition software had inched ahead of Google’s on a standardized test of accuracy. On Tuesday the company admitted that it achieved those results by breaking the rules of that test.

The academic experts who maintain that test say that makes Baidu’s claims of beating Google meaningless. Ren Wu, the Baidu researcher who led work on the software in question, has apologized and said the company is reviewing its results. The company has amended a technical paper it released on its software.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/vie...aidu-cheated-an-artificial-intelligence-test/

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