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The Worlds She Sees with Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li

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1. Physics became a passion for Fei-Fei Li in middle school, leading her to study it in college and sparking her interest in creating AI and exploring intelligence.
2. Fei-Fei Li has an academic background in attending Princeton and Stanford, with her field of expertise being visual intelligence in AI.
3. Stanford was hard to resist for Fei-Fei Li due to the booming AI industry in Silicon Valley.
4. Understanding the semantic world is a crucial aspect of human visual intelligence, according to Fei-Fei Li, especially in making AI visually intelligent.
5. Object recognition is a challenging problem that took evolution millions of years to solve, and it plays a significant role in human visual intelligence and understanding the semantic world.
6. Identifying a North Star problem, such as object recognition, is important for scientists to focus on.
7. AI is about generalization, but overfitting is the flip side of generalization.

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The Influence of Physics on Love for AI

04:19 • 50sec

Understanding Object Recognition in Human Visual Intelligence

15:01 • 36sec

AI and Overfitting: The Importance of Data

16:15 • 47sec