118. “My God, This Is a Transformative Power”

Computer scientist Fei-Fei Li had a wild idea: download one billion images from the internet and teach a computer to recognize them. She ended up advancing the state of artificial intelligence — and she hopes that will turn out to be a good thing for humanity.

RESOURCES:

The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of A.I., • by Fei-Fei Li (2023). • " Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make AI Better for Humanity • ," by Jessi Hempel ( Wired, • 2018). • " ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge • ," by Olga Russakovsky, Li Fei-Fei, et al. ( International Journal of Computer Vision, • 2015).

EXTRAS:

• “ How to Think About A.I. • " series by Freakonomics Radio • (2023). • “ Will A.I. Make Us Smarter? • ” by People I (Mostly) Admire • (2023). • “ Satya Nadella’s Intelligence Is Not Artificial • ,” by Freakonomics Radio • (2023). • “ Max Tegmark on Why Superhuman Artificial Intelligence Won’t be Our Slave • ,” by People I (Mostly) Admire • (2021).

SOURCES:

Fei-Fei Li • , professor of computer science and co-director of the Human-Centered A.I. Institute at Stanford University.