Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred from A.I. Competition
Cheating is pretty entrenched in Chinese culture. Sometimes I even wonder if they consider it's cheating at all or if it's just cleverness and they should be rewarded for it. I believe they feel that way about infringing copyrights too: why should they follow someone else's rules that puts them at a disadvantage when they can instead demonstrate cleverness and break those rules?There was an interesting story recently about how a disproportionate amount of Chinese students are expelled from US universities for cheating.http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/05/29/u-s-schools-ex...The problem is so entrenched that some students rioted when they were prevented from cheating, because they felt that this put them at an unfair disadvantage compared to other schools where cheating was tolerated:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1013239...