Tim Culpan, Columnist

Baidu Is Building an AI Mousetrap

Investing in this area won’t cure the search giant’s advertising habit; it’ll only make it worse.

October 31, 2018 at 6:24 AM UTC

Tim Culpan is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology in Asia. Previously, he was a technology reporter for Bloomberg News.

AI, oh my.
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Baidu Inc. spent a good portion of the 20-minute opening presentations of its investor call Wednesday talking up how awesome its artificial-intelligence technology is.

AI as a service has so many fans, it’s so wonderful, it’s industry-leading. Blah, blah, blah. I’m paraphrasing.