Bengio, Hinton, and Lecun were pariahs for decades, until all of the sudden they were rock stars.
I feel so bad for the 1.3bn people living under this. If we're not careful its going to keep creeping into the West and creativity will suffer.
Edit: removed profanity
So the WSJ succeeded in its purpose of spreading anti-Chinese propaganda. Wow, so easy. Check a more complete story here:
https://qz.com/1742279/a-mind-reading-headband-is-facing-bac...
EDIT: less snarky. Please pay attention, I have the feeling that Western media are building an anti-China sentiment because the West (the US in particular) feels threatened by China's economic and technological growth. Criticism of China is fine and due, but let's avoid being tricked by the media (of both sides) in re-aligning with our own tribes. This is the way conflicts are prepared and started. We need understanding, diplomacy and cooperation, not anger and sabre-rattling.
But not as much as Schmidhuber.