Where did AI come from? Who created it, why, and where can it lead?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly developing into a world-changer, affecting every industry and being used by hundreds of millions of people—even when they're unaware they're interacting with an artificial intelligence. And we're only at the early stages of AI's growth.

Join us for an in-depth talk with Dr. Fei-Fei Li, whom Wired called "one of a tiny group of scientists―a group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen table―who are responsible for AI’s recent remarkable advances.” Dr. Li came to America as an immigrant, enduring a shift from Chinese middle class to American poverty. But a tough upbringing did not stop her from becoming a leading mind in the next big technological development.

Fei-Fei’s adolescent knack for physics endured and positioned her to make a crucial contribution to the breakthrough we now call AI, placing her at the center of a global transformation. Over the last decades, her work has brought her face-to-face with the extraordinary possibilities―and the extraordinary dangers―of the technology she loves. Known as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence, Dr. Li has spent more than two decades at the forefront of the field.

Her work has brought her face-to-face with the extraordinary possibilities―and the extraordinary dangers―of the technology she loves.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about a breakthrough science and one of the breakthrough scientists who is making it happen.

December 4, 2023

This program is part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.

Photo by Drew Kelly for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Speakers

Fei-Fei Li
Ph.D., Computer Science Professor, Founding Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI; Author, The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI; Twitter @drfeifei

In Conversation with DJ Patil
Ph.D., General Partner, GreatPoint Ventures; Former Chief Data Scientist, U.S. Office of Science and Technology; Member, Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California Board of Governors; X @dpatil



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