Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Fei Fei Li (The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI) is a computer scientist, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and is considered by many to be the godmother of AI. Fei Fei joins the Armchair Expert to discuss her initial reluctance to tell her personal story as a part of her book on AI, starting a laundromat with her parents to support themselves, and the high school teacher that changed the course of her life. Fei Fei and Dax talk about how math is the closest thing there is to magic, why being fearlessly stupid is sometimes the best asset you can have, and the reason her north star is asking the audacious question. Fei Fei explains her perspective on the tech-lash, why there is so much humanness in everything we do in technology, and how essential it is to put dignity into how we both create and govern AI.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert.
0:03.4	I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by Modest Mouse.
0:05.8	Hi.
0:06.4	Hello.
0:07.1	I've been talking about this book quite a bit over the last six months.
0:10.8	The World's I See, Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Dr. Fay-Fei Lee.
0:18.1	She is an expert on computer vision, machine learning, and cognitive and computational neuroscience.
0:23.5	She is a computer science professor at Stanford University and founding director of Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence.
0:31.6	So we've had a lot of AI, but I'll say that this, what makes this episode so special is Dr. Faye Faye Lee's personal story is so
0:41.2	compelling.
0:42.4	I mean, the fact that people can land in this country, not speaking English, deep into school
0:47.2	and fucking pick it all up and then master all these fields.
0:51.8	Become better than everyone.
0:52.7	Oh, my God.
0:53.4	It's so impressive.
0:54.2	Yeah. Oh, I loved her. Please enjoy Dr. Become better than everyone. Oh, my God, it's so impressive. Yeah.
0:54.7	Oh, I loved her.
0:55.8	Please enjoy Dr. Fayfaley.
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1:05.3	So keep listening, keep watching.
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