Fei-Fei Li

“I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is, who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the development of AI.”

“Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over, and a rock that size, which should be avoided.”

“As nature discovered early on, vision is one of the most powerful secret weapons of an intelligent animal to navigate, survive, interact, and change the complex world it lives in.”

“I don't know what would happen if the media starts picking up a theme that Google is secretly building AI weapons or AI technologies to enable weapons for the defense industry.”

“When eyes were first developed in animals, suddenly animal life becomes proactive.”

“The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.”

“Autonomous driving provides a scenario where AI can deliver smart tools for assistance in decision-making and planning to human drivers.”

“No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.”

“I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.”

“I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.”

“As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.”

“From the day an idea is conceptualized to the day the technology is built, carried out, and regulated, it's important to have that human awareness.”

“If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.”

“Besides publishing its own work, the Google AI China Center will also support the AI research community by funding and sponsoring AI conferences and workshops and working closely with the vibrant Chinese AI research community.”

“We all have a responsibility to make sure everyone - including companies, governments, and researchers - develop AI with diversity in mind.”

“Governments can make a greater effort to encourage computer science education, especially among young girls, racial minorities, and other groups whose perspectives have been underrepresented in AI.”

“I'm a go-getter. It's in my DNA. If I spend a lot of time lamenting on the difficulties, then it could be distracting.”

“Making AI more sensitive to the full scope of human thought is no simple task. The solutions are likely to require insights derived from fields beyond computer science, which means programmers will have to learn to collaborate more often with experts in other domains.”

“AI is everywhere. It's not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.”

“Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.”