I am not entirely sure what to make of the news that Baidu admitted to turning the ImageNet Gentlemen’s Club into an all-you-can-eat engorgement of challenge submissions. If you hold these goings-on up to the light, from one angle they look more like school yard tomfoolery than razor sharp academic and commercial innovation yet at a different angle it looks slightly more ugly. ...

Twitter is a challenge for deep learning. It’s easy to forget too that whilst Baidu, Google and Facebook are elbow barging each other to get to the front of the line, that Twitter is also a perpetual stream of unstructured and growing content, served up in real-time which presents a weird and wonderful storm of challenges with millions of made ...

Deep Learning at Baidu is all the rage at the moment, that is, at least until they are out-algorithmed by another research laboratory, perhaps with more compute power. This is, of course, all part of what I was talking about last week when I wrote about the report in the Wall Street Journal on Baidu posting the world’s best results on the ...