[dujiulun2006]

Baidu also claims innovation is their source of power (or some crap like this).

Even though it's most famous for showing fake hospitals' ads for 1000 Yuan per click.

[tajen]

I wonder what is in common between a search engine and a driverless car. Apart from creating a Google copycat. I'm persuaded they did reinvent all the internals of the car, so when you're at that point of innovation, why copy Google's list of departments?

[golergka]

Top software engineers, especially in the field of machine learning and AI in general.

[skj]

Yeah, I think it's more accurate to say that both Baidu and Google got their lists of departments from the same source: academic machine learning.

[nabla9]

Andrew Ng works for Baidu.

Their face recognition software is currently much better than second best (Google) 0.37% vs 0.15% error, Their voice recognition seems to be the very best. What they are famous for now is not what they are famous for in the next few years.

[daveguy]

Do you have a citation for that? Those error rates seem extremely low for facial recognition. They look closer to MNIST than anything.