#839: Dr. Fei-Fei Li, The Godmother of AI — Asking Audacious Questions, Civilizational Technology, and Finding Your North Star
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78 min
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Artificial Intelligence, Product & Tech Trends, Science & Discovery
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Dr. Fei-Fei Li discusses her journey from Chinese immigrant to AI pioneer, creating ImageNet dataset, founding World Labs for spatial intelligence, and addressing AI's civilizational impact on society.
Notable Moment
Li reveals her father named her Fei Fei after catching and releasing a bird while bicycling late to the hospital during her birth, with fei meaning flying in Chinese.
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“World Labs Mission: The company develops spatial intelligence AI that enables machines to understand three-dimensional environments, supporting creators, designers, and eventually robotic applications through world modeling.”
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