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Fei Fei Li

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

It was pretty bad.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

It was pretty bad.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

It was pretty bad.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Yeah, I'll start with this room and write everything. Well, okay. So first of all, I've had years of training as a scientist. So after you formulate a hypothesis, you do have to come up with a plan. My PhD thesis had a mini version of ImageDesk. So I got a little bit of practice. But yeah, our idea was to create a data set and a benchmark to encompass all the visual concepts in the world.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Yeah, I'll start with this room and write everything. Well, okay. So first of all, I've had years of training as a scientist. So after you formulate a hypothesis, you do have to come up with a plan. My PhD thesis had a mini version of ImageDesk. So I got a little bit of practice. But yeah, our idea was to create a data set and a benchmark to encompass all the visual concepts in the world.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Yeah, I'll start with this room and write everything. Well, okay. So first of all, I've had years of training as a scientist. So after you formulate a hypothesis, you do have to come up with a plan. My PhD thesis had a mini version of ImageDesk. So I got a little bit of practice. But yeah, our idea was to create a data set and a benchmark to encompass all the visual concepts in the world.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

So we had to start with WordNet. We had to figure out what is visual. We have to figure out what are the concepts we need and then where to get the source images and how to curate it. Every step of the way, like Dax, you were saying, we were just way too optimistic at the beginning.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

So we had to start with WordNet. We had to figure out what is visual. We have to figure out what are the concepts we need and then where to get the source images and how to curate it. Every step of the way, like Dax, you were saying, we were just way too optimistic at the beginning.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

So we had to start with WordNet. We had to figure out what is visual. We have to figure out what are the concepts we need and then where to get the source images and how to curate it. Every step of the way, like Dax, you were saying, we were just way too optimistic at the beginning.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Yeah, I was just fearlessly stupid.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Yeah, I was just fearlessly stupid.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Yeah, I was just fearlessly stupid.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

And then we start to hit all these walls of Jia and I and other students. But Jia was the main student. We had to just deal with every obstacle that came. Now, science is a funny thing, right? Sometimes serendipity makes a world of difference. What was really critical was the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourcing platform. Amazon, nothing to do with us.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

And then we start to hit all these walls of Jia and I and other students. But Jia was the main student. We had to just deal with every obstacle that came. Now, science is a funny thing, right? Sometimes serendipity makes a world of difference. What was really critical was the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourcing platform. Amazon, nothing to do with us.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

And then we start to hit all these walls of Jia and I and other students. But Jia was the main student. We had to just deal with every obstacle that came. Now, science is a funny thing, right? Sometimes serendipity makes a world of difference. What was really critical was the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourcing platform. Amazon, nothing to do with us.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

We're like, oh, we have all these servers sitting in our data centers and we have nothing better to do. Let's make an online worker platform so people can just trade little tasks.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

We're like, oh, we have all these servers sitting in our data centers and we have nothing better to do. Let's make an online worker platform so people can just trade little tasks.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

We're like, oh, we have all these servers sitting in our data centers and we have nothing better to do. Let's make an online worker platform so people can just trade little tasks.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Exactly. Which I didn't know it exists. I was in New Jersey, Princeton and trying to pull my hair out. And then some student who did his master at Stanford came to Princeton and just mentioned it casually and said, do you know this thing? That was really, really quite a moment for me.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)

Exactly. Which I didn't know it exists. I was in New Jersey, Princeton and trying to pull my hair out. And then some student who did his master at Stanford came to Princeton and just mentioned it casually and said, do you know this thing? That was really, really quite a moment for me.