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Quotes from Fei-Fei Li

AI is everywhere. It's not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over, and a rock that size, which should be avoided.
~ Fei-Fei Li
The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.
~ Fei-Fei Li
We need to inject humanism into our AI education and research by injecting all walks of life into the process.
~ Fei-Fei Li
I really believe there are no borders for science.
~ Fei-Fei Li
From the day an idea is conceptualized to the day the technology is built, carried out, and regulated, it's important to have that human awareness.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot.
~ Fei-Fei Li
If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.
~ Fei-Fei Li
The tools and technologies we've developed are really the first few drops of water in the vast ocean of what AI can do.
~ Fei-Fei Li
There's a great phrase, written in the '70s: 'The definition of today's AI is a machine that can make a perfect chess move while the room is on fire.' It really speaks to the limitations of AI. In the next wave of AI research, if we want to make more helpful and useful machines, we've got to bring back the contextual understanding.
~ Fei-Fei Li
I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.
~ Fei-Fei Li
We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.
~ Fei-Fei Li
I don't know what would happen if the media starts picking up a theme that Google is secretly building AI weapons or AI technologies to enable weapons for the defense industry.
~ Fei-Fei Li
There is great potential to use computer vision technology in a constructive and benevolent way.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Making AI more sensitive to the full scope of human thought is no simple task. The solutions are likely to require insights derived from fields beyond computer science, which means programmers will have to learn to collaborate more often with experts in other domains.
~ Fei-Fei Li
It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.
~ Fei-Fei Li
When eyes were first developed in animals, suddenly animal life becomes proactive.
~ Fei-Fei Li
AI-assisted driving is a perfect platform for advancing fundamental human-centric artificial intelligence research while also producing practical applications.
~ Fei-Fei Li
I'm a go-getter. It's in my DNA. If I spend a lot of time lamenting on the difficulties, then it could be distracting.
~ Fei-Fei Li
I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is, who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the development of AI.
~ Fei-Fei Li
This is the world where our children will live, and technology should reflect that diverse world. With technology and a little love, we can make it a better place for them.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I'm an AI technologist.
~ Fei-Fei Li
One thing ImageNet changed in the field of AI is suddenly people realized the thankless work of making a dataset was at the core of AI research.
~ Fei-Fei Li