{"id":2394,"date":"2016-03-25T03:11:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/25\/baidu-built-an-a-i-that-predicts-dangerous-crowds-and-stampedes\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T03:11:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:11:54","slug":"baidu-built-an-a-i-that-predicts-dangerous-crowds-and-stampedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/25\/baidu-built-an-a-i-that-predicts-dangerous-crowds-and-stampedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Baidu built an A.I. that predicts dangerous crowds and stampedes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 another 49 had been injured in the crush.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the 2014 stampede isn\u2019t the only deadly crowd crush in China\u2019s living memoryEight children died<\/a> in a school stampede in Hunan in 2009Three died and many were injured<\/a> in a 2007 crush during a Carrefour sale in Chongqing37 people were killed<\/a> in a stampede during Lantern Festival celebrations in Beijing in 2004. In 1991, a deadly crush in Taiyuan killed over 100 people<\/a>. Even Shanghai itself has experienced this before, havinglost at least 17 people<\/a> in a stampede at a ferry terminal in 1987. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1646,1645,1644,1260,970],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-ai","tag-baidu","tag-computer","tag-software","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}