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Baidu built an A.I. that predicts dangerous crowds and stampedes
![]() ![]() ![]() It was December 31, 2014. In Shanghai, thousands flocked to the historic and picturesque Bund, where there had been reports a light show would take place to ring in the new year. Unfortunately, too many people had the same idea. A dangerously dense crowd formed, and at a viewing platform in Chen Yi Square overlooking the river, confusion and a lack of crowd control led to panic and eventually stampede. Within minutes, 36 people had been killed and a**ther 49 had been injured in the crush. Sadly, the 2014 stampede isn’t the only deadly crowd crush in China’s living memoryEight children died in a school stampede in Hunan in 2009Three died and many were injured in a 2007 crush during a Carrefour sale in Chongqing37 people were killed in a stampede during Lantern Festival celebrations in Beijing in 2004. In 1991, a deadly crush in Taiyuan killed over 100 people. Even Shanghai itself has experienced this before, havinglost at least 17 people in a stampede at a ferry terminal in 1987. Read more... More about Software, Tech**logy, Computer, Baidu, and Ai ??????? ??????: Baidu built an A.I. that predicts dangerous crowds and stampedes || ??????: rss || ??????: اسم منتداك
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