AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li Calls for Human-Centered Technology to Solve Problems and Avoid Threats
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Fei-Fei Li is an AI pioneer who developed ImageNet, a database that helped spark major advances in computer vision. She calls for "human centered" AI.
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Li grew up in China and immigrated to the U.S. as a teen. A high school teacher mentored her and helped her family.
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Li earned degrees at Princeton and Caltech. She is now a Stanford professor and co-director of the Human-Centered AI Institute.
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Li sees threats from AI like bias and misinformation but believes it can also help solve big problems like disease.
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Li says universities can't train the latest AI models. She wants more public sector investment to focus AI on social good.
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