Baidu scientists admit to ‘mistake’ on supercomputer test amid cheating claims
A group of scientists from Chinese search engine giant Baidu have apologised amid claims they cheated on a complex image-recognition test, which led to their being banned from similar events by the organiser for a year.
A group of scientists from Chinese search engine giant Baidu have apologised amid claims they cheated on a complex image-recognition test, which led to their being banned from similar events by the organiser for a year.
“We apologise for this mistake and we are continuing to review the results,” said Dr Ren Wu, leader of the Baidu Heterogeneous Computing team, in a letter to the organiser and the research community released on Tuesday.
The company said earlier that their artificial-intelligence technology was ahead of international competitors like Google.
“Our company is now leading the race in computer intelligence,” Ren said at a tech summit in California last month. “We have great power in our hands – much greater than our competitors.”
The team claimed that, with the backing of the Chinese government, they were building the world’s largest and most sophisticated AI platform for research and commercial applications.
The ImageNet large scale visual recognition competition (ILSVRC) is one of the world’s biggest AI competitions organised each year by Stanford University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Michigan.
