Fei Fei Li
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Podcast Appearances
It was pretty bad.
It was pretty bad.
It was pretty bad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, I was just fearlessly stupid.
Yeah, I was just fearlessly stupid.
Yeah, I was just fearlessly stupid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.