
Electric Dreams · Track 2
Atmospheric Folk / Cinematic Indie · Intimate to sweeping, quiet conviction building to cinematic triumph
Dr. Fei-Fei Li · The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next
“There's nothing artificial about AI. It's inspired by people. It's created by people, and most importantly, it impacts people.”- Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li arrived in the US as a teenager and worked in her family's dry cleaner while studying physics. She entered AI research when the field was considered a dead end — as late as 2015-2016, tech companies avoided using the word 'AI' because they weren't sure if it was a dirty word. Her breakthrough was realizing that machines needed massive, cleanly-labeled datasets to learn visual intelligence, leading her to create ImageNet with its 15 million labeled images.