Fei Fei Li

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI) · 11 Dec 2024 podcast
That's what I loved. I loved about Einstein. I loved about modern physics, even Newton, classic physics. You have to think so beyond the immediate reality.
There is actually even beyond math.
I love that you call it magic. It is also the furthest thing we have to AI is that humanity in us, that magic, that creativity, that intuition, that almost ungraspable way of intelligence. Yes. We should keep that in mind.
Yes.
So we started very quickly right after my freshman year started because my mom's health was going so badly. They were working in Newark, New Jersey. I don't know if you guys know that part. Newark, New Jersey. From Persephone to Newark, New Jersey is a very difficult drive. My mom's health was bad and it was long working hours. I was really worried about them. Doctor was worried.
We finally decided if we can do a local thing in Persephone, it'll be better for the family. And it was very important for me that the business is a weekend business because that way I can do the lion's share of work. But there are pretty much three kinds of weekend business for immigration families like us. Open a restaurant, open a grocery store, or open a laundry.
And restaurant and grocery require very late working hours for restaurant. And grocery is very early. You have to go to Chinatown to get supplies. So neither of these work for my mom's health. Whereas dry cleaning was actually perfect because it's a daytime business. It's very long hours during the weekend, but it's at least daytime.
And a lot of my mom's work, especially when it comes to alteration, she can sit in front of the sewing machine.
Yes, she carried that illness with her all her life.
The tailoring.
I mean, there's no money in any of this. But having that tailoring ability was nice because it helps a little bit. And my mom is incredible. She never learned this. She was a bookworm and she's kind of a brainy.
Right. Yeah. I don't think she would love physics. But you know what I mean? She should have probably been an academic. Yes. She would have been an academic. But then she just kind of figured out tailoring by herself. I still don't know. Like, I tried. I could not. The only thing I can do is sit there and unstitch things for her.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, so we opened a dry cleaner shop during the middle of my freshman year. And that became my entire memory of my undergraduate. Here's a fun fact. Princeton is organized by residential dorms. I lived in one of them called Forbes. It turned out Forbes is very famous for its Sunday brunch. I didn't know there was a Sunday brunch. because I was home doing dry cleaning.
Right. But then when I went back to Princeton as a faculty, Forbes was very kind. They made me a faculty fellow. And I discovered Sunday Brothers. 50 years later.
So I felt so good. I finally got my Sunday brunch.
Yeah, it was a total shock. To this day, actually, as a 19-year-old, as much as I appreciated Gene and Bob, I did not realize the extent. We're talking about late 1990s. There are two public school teachers with two kids about to go to college. Wow.
He said Jing and he decided to do that. I mean, at that moment, I was very, very grateful. But now after I became a grown up, this is unimaginable.
Especially he later told me, I think when I was returning the money, he said, I didn't realize you'll be able to return. Right.
I did not know that. He did use the word lend. And of course, in my mind, I was like, of course, I'm going to return. Like, I'll do anything to return. But Jing and Bob did not expect that. They could not have assumed that. So the money was being raised to help your mom? No, to help my family. To start the business. Yeah. We as a family, I still consider myself the CEO of the dry cleaner. Yeah.
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