Building Human-Centered AI

About this episode

This episode features Dr. Fei-Fei Li, the creator of ImageNet, discussing her contributions to AI and her new book.

Best-known as the creator of ImageNet, we meet the Godmother of AI, Dr. Fei-Fei Li In the latest installment of our oral history project. She's a Chinese-American computer scientist and the creator of ImageNet - the dataset that made rapid advances possible in this field of AI that helps computers take meaningful information from things like photos and videos. We Meet: Stanford University's Fei-Fei Li, author of "The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI" and the founder of World Labs Credits: This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.

People in this episode

Host: Jennifer Strong

Guest: Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Topics covered

• AI
• computer science
• ImageNet
• oral history
• human-centered AI
• technology

Keywords

• AI
• Fei-Fei Li
• ImageNet
• Stanford
• human-centered AI
• oral history
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stanford University, World Labs

Products: ImageNet

Books & works: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

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