Embracing Fearlessness in AI Research and Team Building

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, AI pioneer, co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, and founder of World Labs. Fei-Fei shares why she’s building at the intersection of embodiment and intelligence, and what today’s AI systems are still missing. From the early days of ImageNet to her vision for the next generation of robotics, she unpacks the human and technical motivations behind World Labs. They also discuss the challenges of 3D world modeling, her approach to building exceptional teams, and the special qualities that have led her students like Andrej Karpathy to make major breakthroughs.

Show Notes:

0:00 Why and what Dr. Fei-Fei Li is building

3:00 World models at World Labs

6:44 Missing gaps in the AI future

9:16 Robotics and physical intelligence

16:15 Greatest challenges of 3D

19:08 Fei-Fei’s work in PhD in ImageNet

23:05 Special moments in Dr. Li's career

29:33 Building teams

32:05 Human-centered AI