Baidu's AI robot upstaged by Google's AlphaGo in show down against humans

Baidu's Deep Learning Lab, which is leading the artificial intelligence programme at China's dominant internet search engine, was upstaged by Google DeepMind's AlphaGo on its home turf when it announced a duel against human competitors scheduled to be broadcast across China on Friday. Deep Learning Lab will enter its artificial intelligence robot to solve problems in the popular television game show Super Brain in China. The challenge will involve using facial and voice recognition skills in three rounds against human challengers. The first round of the Baidu AI versus humans contest will be aired on Jiangsu Satellite TV Station on Friday night. Representing humanity in the challenge are a number of gifted individuals who won the previous Super Brain contest.