After 3+ years, today is the day that my book “The Worlds I See” gets to see the world itself. It is a science memoir of the intertwining histories of me becoming an
#AI
scientist, and the making of the modern AI itself. All versions are now on Amazon 1/
Who is talking about
#AI
? And who should be included in this global conversation? Heading to eastern Taiwan to meet with a (large) group of mostly rural and aboriginal high schoolers to have a dialogue with them about
#AI
and more importantly, the future they should be part of.
Excited to share that my book, The Worlds I See, will be published on Nov 7, 2023 from
@Flatironbooks
&
@melindagates
' Moment of Lift Books. I believe AI can help people & I hope you’ll come along on the journey. Preorder
#MoemtnofLiftBooks
#WorldsISee
1/
What is a really really hard problem to work on in
#AI
? My own answer is Spatial Intelligence - a technology that could empower and enable countless possible use cases in creation, design, learning, AR/VR, robotics, and beyond. It’s a real honor that my cofounders
@jcjohnss
Hello, world! We are World Labs, a spatial intelligence company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. Read more:
Thirty years of Computer Vision research at work here. While the public does not hear much about basic science research, it’s the generations of scientists and their passionate work that bring moments like this to live 🌹👍🙏
With no road maps on Mars, I’m building my own as I go. There are lots of places I want to explore, and mapping while I drive will help me see and do more. Let the road trip begin.
I’m deeply concerned about California’s SB-1047, Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. While well intended, this bill will not solve what it is meant to and will deeply harm
#AI
academia, little tech and the open-source community.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024
#NobelPrize
in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Spatial Intelligence is a critical piece of the AI puzzle. This is my 2024 TED talk about the journey from evolution to AI, on how we build Spatial Intelligence. "Sight turned into insight; Seeing became understanding; Understanding led to action. All these gave rise to
BIG NEWS!
@StanfordHAI
says “hi” to the world! :) We are launching the biggest effort ever in human-centered
#AI
research, education and public outreach!
Hi, we are the
@Stanford
Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. AI has the potential to transform our world – how will we ensure it improves life for all of us? Join us in our work to explore this dream of a better future.
#StanfordHumanAI
After attending State of the Union speech
#SOTU
tonight, I had a brief exchange w/ President Biden
@POTUS
.
Me: “Mr. President, you gave a historical speech by mentioning AI in the SOTU speech for the first time in history.”
@POTUS
(smiling): “Yes! And keep it safe”. 1/
Stanford today soft launches our Human-Centered AI Initiative. I’m very excited to be co-directing this initiative with former provost John Etchemendy. Our mission: To advance
#AI
research, education, policy, and practice to benefit humanity.
@Stanford
Drum roll… the books have arrived! Just unboxed it today! Feeling so grateful for everyone! I’ll find a moment to do a proper thank-you note. But I want to share the moment now! Preorder here — The Worlds I See:
It’s that time of the year - first lecture of
@cs231n
!! It’s the 9th year since
@karpathy
and I started this journey in 2015, what an incredible decade of AI and computer vision! Am so excited to this new crop of students in CS231n! (Co-instructing with
@eadeli
this year 😍🤩)
20 years ago, his work in Big Bang & Blackholes inspired me to study physics at Princeton. Today, his cautionary words of the impact of
#AI
motivates us to harness this technology for the good of our society.
#StevenHawking
will be forever remembered for his brilliance & humility
Is AI sentient? My friend and colleague Prof. John Etchemendy, a renowned professor and co-Director of
@StanfordHAI
, just co-authored this piece to debunk the claim that today’s LLMs are sentient
@TIME
Proudly announcing AutoML Vision, an
#AI
product that enables everyone to build their own customized ML model without much ML expertise. A big step towards Democratizing AI for more people! Amazing team work
@googlecloud
@googleresearch
@GoogleBrain
Super proud of my PhD student Justin
@jcjohnss
for successfully defending his PhD dissertation today. Justin’s thesis symbolizes a new era of computer vision and
#AI
research moving towards deeper visual reasoning and intelligence. Congrats Justin!!
We are excited to announce new AI products AutoML Natural Language, AutoML Translate and Contact Center AI to empower industries. It’s one year’s hard work with our team
@googlecloud
#GoogleNext18
It’s an honor of my life that my beloved alma mater
@Princeton
University has selected my book “The Worlds I See” as this years’s freshman Pre-Read! This book is about my journey of finding the Northstars in AI. And I wish every single incoming college students, Princetonians or
"The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI" by trailblazing computer scientist — and
#PrincetonU
alumna —
@drfeifei
'99 has been selected as the Princeton Pre-read for the Class of 2028:
One year ago, we first introduced BEHAVIOR-1K, which we hope will be an important step towards human-centered robotics. After our year-long beta, we’re thrilled to announce its full release, which our team just presented at NVIDIA
#GTC2024
. 1/n
Just announced! HAI Co-Director
@drfeifei
joins a scientific advisory board created by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that will advise
@UN
leaders on breakthroughs in technology and how to harness benefits of these advances while mitigating risks.
Anticipating an AI Executive Order by
@POTUS
President Biden on Monday, as an AI technologist, researcher & educator, I hope to see more AI investment in the public sector. It has been yrs of work
@StanfordHAI
in calling for this effort 1/
So proud of
@syeung10
for passing her PhD defense with flying colors! Her dissertation embodies a 5-yr journey we took together to pioneer a new area of research using
#AI
to assist healthcare delivery. The world now has one more woman
#AI
leader <3
Once a while, a person in human civilization asks an audacious question - so bold, profound, even bordering insane. Yet it ignites our collective imagination and creativity and forever changes the of fate of our species. For Alan Turing, the question was “CAN MACHINES THINK?” 🥰
Alan Mathison Turing was born on this day in 1912. He was a British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing. The
#ACMTuringAward
, computing's most prestigious award, was named in Alan Turing's honor.
It’s been 3 yrs since the last live teaching of
@cs231n
@Stanford
! Today is our 1st class for the new term. Seeing hundreds of students filing into the lecture hall was just an amazingly energizing scene! Enrollment is now full at capacity (500), hope we will get more in soon!
It’s an honor for me and
@StanfordHAI
to work with
@CAgovernor
@GavinNewsom
and our fellow ecosystem partners to pave a path forward in the responsible governance of AI in California, the beating heart of AI innovation. Much work is ahead for all of us. Thank you
@CAgovernor
for
HAI is honored to play a continued partnership with
@CAgovernor
,
@BerkeleyDataSci
, and Tino Cuellar to ensure CA is not only a place where AI innovation and safety flourish, but also leads on human-centered AI.
Very excited by our new brain-robotic interface work
@corl_conf
— NOIR is a general-purpose, intelligent BRI system that enables humans to command robots, using non-invasive EEG signals. 🤩👇
An AI-First moment today
@Google
-Release of the AI Principles. This is an opportunity to reflect on our values & a reminder of our responsibility to develop technology that makes a positive impact on everyone, incl. our users, our community &the world.
My students tell me I’m in the movie. But I haven’t had time to watch it. :) So honored to be part of it. And what an incredible story! (Will definitely watch soon!)
Large-language models like
#GPT3
have shown tsunami impact in
#AI
world. We predict profound impact of these models in countless applications to come. 100+ researchers
@StanfordHAI
have released a paper abt the present &future of these Foundation Models.
My new paper on generating images from scene graphs using graph convolution and GANs is up on arXiv! To appear at CVPR2018, with
@agrimgupta92
and
@drfeifei
Survived Lecture 1 of
@cs231n
today, w/ ~400 students online, from Vietnam to NYC, London to Texas. 200 more will be watching the recording. Students, Thank you for doing your part for
#SocialDistancing
! And thank you for continuing to LEARN when even in trying times!
It was my honor to speak before the Senate
@HSGAC
this morning. I was pleased to see our nation's leaders coming together to understand AI's potential and risks. I hope to see continued support for the CREATE AI Act.
#artificialintelligence
@stanfordhai
1/
A fatal self-driving car accident, and a call by
@Stanford
scholars on considering ethical challenges in ML & healthcare. This is what
#AI
is: it’s deeply impactful to human lives; and it takes all of us to work on it to make it safe, fair and benevolent.
An exciting
@googlecloud
CloudAI product is coming live tmrw. Many months of hard work! Check our blog tmrw! We've now got more than a dozen
#AI
products&services to help democratize AI & make AI/ML easy to use for developers & businesses.
@lijiali_vision
& I at press conf today.
Our “Deep Learning for Computer Vision” class
@cs231n
finished with a blast. Four hundred+ students presented their course projects, using computer vision and deep learning to tackle creative problems in healthcare, sustainability, self-driving car, graphics, and much more. 😍
Drum roll! We release BEHAVIOR, an embodied AI benchmark and challenge of 100 complex household activities that would pose significant difficulties to all of today’s state-of-the-art algorithms. Hope to see great participation to this challenge
@ICCV_2021
Can your model solve 100 realistic, diverse and complex household activities? Prove it! ;) We are excited to announce the 1st BEHAVIOR Challenge for Embodied AI @ ICCV21, a challenge for visuo-motor long horizon activities in simulation.
Website:
Fei-Fei Li has written a book. She was the first computer vision researcher to truly understand the power of big data and her work opened the floodgates for deep learning. She delivers a clear-eyed account of the awesome potential and danger of AI.
“I often tell my students not to be misled by the name ‘artificial intelligence’ — there is nothing artificial about it. A.I. is made by humans, intended to behave by humans and, ultimately, to impact humans lives and human society.” Thanks
@CadeMetz
@vkhosla
Responsible development and use of Open Source projects and software have changed the world and propelled science and technology in public and private sectors, benefitting developers, researchers, students, entrepreneurs, businesses, etc - Human Genome, Linux, ImageNet, PyTorch,
This is so interesting. IMHO, ImageNet, built upon generations of datasets& vision research, defined an important North Star for vision/ML research, &created a path (via training/benchmarking) towards that ⭐️ Below is my favorite quote by Einstein on defining scientific problems
Some folks are uncritically arguing that only *architectures* matter in deep learning, not datasets nor anything else (So Fei-Fei Li creating ImageNet didn't contribute much 🙄)
This narrow tunnel focus is so harmful to the field.
The overload and then collapse of regional healthcare system is my major concern - this has happened in Wuhan, Iran and N. Italy. This is why some regional fatality number is so much higher. Every local/national government should try hard to prevent such tragedy from happening.
AMAZING ANIMATION on why it’s critical to
#FlattenTheCurve
for fighting the
#COVID19
epidemic. Caseload over healthcare capacity is what ➡️ to excess higher mortality. Acting early- such as more testing and contact tracing is key.
#TESTVIRUSNOW
(hat tip
@alxrdk
for animation)
“I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg(requoting Sarah Grimke).
#AI
technology might be advanced, but
#AI
community’s culture still needs significant change. Let’s continue on making a positive diff!
This has nothing to do w. your h-index.
A guy once told me
@drfeifei
isn't qualified to lead
@StanfordHAI
, since she "just did ImageNet". JUST ImageNet? Are you serious?! ImageNet papers are cited 10k+ times, she has a h-index of 89!
These are trolls & they will try anything.
Fei-Fei Li of
@StanfordHAI
will deliver the 2022 Tanner Lecture on Human Values and Artificial Intelligence at Yale's Humanities Quadrangle on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m.
More about Li and full event details:
@YaleWHC
@drfeifei
#Yale
#AI
#WomenInSTEM
After 3+ years, today is the day that my book “The Worlds I See” gets to see the world itself. It is a science memoir of the intertwining histories of me becoming an
#AI
scientist, and the making of the modern AI itself. All versions are now on Amazon 1/
A hearty congratulations to my student
@RanjayKrishna
(co-advised by
@msbernst
) for a successful PhD thesis defense! Great pioneering work in combining human cognition, human-computer interaction and
#AI
! Thank you PhD committee members
@chrmanning
@syeung10
@magrawala
🌹
Roger Penrose
@RogerPenrose5
won
#NobelPrize
in physics today! He is one of my childhood heroes, a physics giant, and a major intellectual role model whose writings inspired me to take the journey from a physics student to neuroscience and eventually
#AI
. So happy! 😍
1/8 A brief summary of 2017’s AI events in my world. Science is about always going beyond what we’ve done.
#ImageNet
retires as a research competition, while remaining as a key dataset to
#deeplearning
&
#computervision
research. A good summary story here:
This is a really good summary of how the breakthroughs in Neural Network (AlexNet), Big Data (ImageNet) and GPUs led to the birth of modern AI and computer vision. Thank you
@Kseniase_
and your
@TheTuringPost
!
This is how ImageNet, a massive dataset opened for collaboration, started to influence the deep learning revolution. But it wasn't just ImageNet.
Check out other revolutionary AI developments like AlexNet and GPUs in my article at
@TheTuringPost
!
7/7
Excited to share that my book, The Worlds I See, will be published on Nov 7, 2023 from
@Flatironbooks
&
@melindagates
' Moment of Lift Books. I believe AI can help people & I hope you’ll come along on the journey. Preorder
#MoemtnofLiftBooks
#WorldsISee
1/
📢 The
#AIIndex2024
is now live! This year’s report presents new estimates on AI training costs, a thorough analysis of the responsible AI landscape, and a new chapter about AI's impact on medicine and scientific discovery. Read the full report here:
Here is a thoughtful piece by Prof. Michael Jordan on
#ML
,
#AI
, statistics, etc. "In the current era, we have a real opportunity to conceive of something historically new — a human-centric engineering discipline." Yay to Human-centered AI!
HAI co-director
@drfeifei
has been elected to
@theNAEng
for her contributions in building large knowledge bases for machine learning and visual understanding. Congratulations to her and the rest of this year’s newly elected members!
Yesterday I announced my upcoming science memoir book about my personal and professional journey of learning and making
#AI
. The book is called The Worlds I See
#WorldsISee
. Today I’m pleasantly surprised to learn… 1/
Excited to share that my book, The Worlds I See, will be published on Nov 7, 2023 from
@Flatironbooks
&
@melindagates
' Moment of Lift Books. I believe AI can help people & I hope you’ll come along on the journey. Preorder
#MoemtnofLiftBooks
#WorldsISee
1/
Our
@nature
paper on an emerging technology using smart sensors and
#AI
algorithms to help improve healthcare delivery for patients and clinicians, co-authored with my wonderful PhD student Albert Haque and colleague Prof. Arnold Milstein.
@StanfordHAI
1/
#AI
is a fertilizer to the garden of possibilities from scientific discovery to economic growth. We need more people to be educated and invited into the world of AI, not less. Ensuring public sector and entrepreneurial’s access to the best AI models is critical for our society!
Do you want to learn to train and evaluate embodied AI solutions for 1000 household tasks in a realistic simulator? Join our BEHAVIOR Tutorial at
#ECCV2022
: Benchmarking Embodied AI Solutions in Natural Tasks!
Time: Monday, Oct 24th 14:00 local time (4:00 Pacific Time)
@geoffreyhinton
Healthcare is fundamentally about care for humans, from illness to wellbeing. It would be wonderful to see more AI efforts towards supplementing and augmenting our human doctors and nurses so that in the near future, a human surgeon’s success rate is 100% due to AI assistance.
Very honored to receive the Intel Lifetime Achievement Award from
@intel
CEO
@PGelsinger
! My first ever computer started with an “Intel inside” sticker. It’s amazing how far technology has come in just 20+ years!
#IntelInnovation
#AI
Thank you Anima! ❤️ A very recent research
@PNASNews
by my
@Stanford
colleagues shows exactly this - “(underrepresented group’s) novel contributions are (often) devalued and discounted” in academia, including “gender & racial minorities”.
Congratulations to
@DrFeiFei
for induction into
@theNAMedicine
for helping establish the field of vision-based artificial intelligence
#AI
(especially
#ImageNet
), engendering diverse high-yield medical applications! And welcome to Section 1!
#NAMmtg
.
@Stanford
@UCBerkeley
&
@Caltech
computer vision faculty& their students meet today to exchange research ideas, topics include 3D vision, language-visual models, robotic learning, computational photography, vision foundation models, etc. At the EOD, AI is truly fun Science! 1/
8/8 Last but not the least.
#AI
is only a young science with a big dream. More support for basic research, open exchange of ideas, sincere partnership & collaboration, thoughtful & inclusive discussions are needed, instead of hype and clickbaits. Wish for a more productive 2018!