AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li on the future of humanity

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🗓️ 11 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Fei-Fei Li's new book is the story of her journey from China to the U.S., from small business to Big Tech, and from academic research to corporate life, and back again. But more than that, it's the story of the dawn of artificial intelligence, as told through her experience as one of the people summoning this new day and standing there awestruck, excited and concerned about what it will mean for humanity.

Dr. Li joins us on this episode to discuss the book, The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI, published by Moment of Lift Books, an imprint from Melinda French Gates and Flatiron Books.

Known for her foundational contributions to AI and computer vision, Dr. Li is the inventor of ImageNet, a large-scale dataset of images that enabled rapid advances in deep learning for visual recognition. She is a professor of computer science at Stanford University and a co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, who worked as Google Cloud's chief scientist for AI/ML during a 2017-2018 sabbatical.

Note: GeekWire's Todd Bishop will be speaking further with Dr. Li on Monday evening Nov. 13 at Town Hall in Seattle. See this site for details and tickets.

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0:00.0	When I was building the technology, especially when I was seeing the link between AI and healthcare and also other industry,
0:11.0	it is so easy for me to understand people from the other side
0:16.2	because as a small business owner for a dry cleaner shop, everything you're trained on is understand your customers and make sure they're happy.
0:26.7	And it really made me understand the struggle of someone as an immigrant, that's myself, as well as the receiving end of a product or service, the customers and users.
0:40.0	So when I was working in health care with AI or at Google, it was second nature to me to try to ground technology into human perspective.
0:53.0	And besides, I live in Silicon Valley,
0:55.3	I can tell people I had a startup when I was 19
0:58.6	and there was a dry cleaning shop. Welcome to GeekWire, I'm GeekWire, I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop.
1:08.0	My guest this week is Dr Fay Fay Lee, the computer scientist and Stanford University professor.
1:15.0	She's known for her foundational contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, focusing
1:19.7	on computer vision and human-centered AI.
1:22.8	Her new book is The Worlds I See, Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI.
1:30.0	It's published by Moment of Lift Books, an imprint from Melinda French Gates and Flat Iron Books.
1:37.0	Dr. Faye Faye Lee, thank you very much for joining me.
1:40.0	Thank you, Todd, I'm looking forward to this.
1:42.0	Me too. I've been reading your book for the past couple of weeks, as I was just mentioning to you before we started recording.
1:48.0	I've read it from cover to cover.
1:50.0	And it really is the story of your life from China to the US and from academia to corporate life and back again.
1:58.0	But through all of that, it's the story of the dawn of AI as told through your experience as one of the people
2:04.2	summoning this new day and then standing awestruck and excited and a little bit
2:09.0	concerned about what it's going to mean for humanity. To start us off here.
2:14.0	Why was this an important book for you to write?
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