‘Difficulties on the road to AI’: man pours water on Baidu chief at conference


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 03 Jul 2019

Baidu's co-founder and CEO Robin Li delivers a keynote speech at the opening session of Baidu's annual AI developers conference Baidu Create 2019 in Beijing, China, July 3, 2019. REUTERS/Yilei Sun

SHANGHAI/BEIJING: A man poured a bottle of water over Baidu Inc chief executive Robin Li on July 3 at the opening of an annual conference for the Chinese search giant.

Li was speaking of applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in a speech when the young man approached him, spilled the liquid over Li's head, and walked away.

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