HomeStartupsStupid Humans Need Artificial Intelligence or Not? Innovations Stupid Humans Need Artificial Intelligence or Not? “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” These are in the words of Pedro Domingos. Whether he is right about us being stupid or about computers being smart, there is a being that is setting the pace in the path of artificial intelligence. I present to you Dr Fei-Fei Li Dr. Fei-Fei Li is one of today’s most influential women in technology, a pioneer of artificial intelligence. Dr. Li was born in Beijing, China and moved to the U.S. with her mother when she was 16. She studied physics at Princeton and went on to receive a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Caltech. Born in 1976, Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-born American computer scientist, non-profit executive, and writer. She is the Sequoia Capital Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Li is a Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and a Co-Director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. The Stanford professor co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit whose mission is to educate the next generation of AI technologists, thinkers and leaders by promoting diversity and inclusion through human-centered AI principles and is aimed at improving diversity and inclusion in the field of AI. But she’s most known for her work on the ImageNet project where she was the leading scientist and principal investigator. A database of over 15 million images. In layman’s terms, the database helped “train” the first computer to recognize and understand what’s in a picture. In her TED Talk on the project, Dr. Li stated, “Little by little, we’re giving sight to the machines. First, we teach them to see. Then, they help us to see better.” Li majored in physics but also studied computer science and engineering as an undergraduate student at Princeton University, from where she graduated with high honors with an A.B. in physics and certificates in applied and computational mathematics and engineering physics in 1999. During her years at Princeton, she returned home most weekends so that she could work in her parents’ dry-cleaning store. She has been awarded by Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans 1999, Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship 2006, NSF CAREER Award 2009, Best Paper Honorable Mention 2010, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011 Fellow, Alfred P.Sloan Fellowship, one of the Leading Global Thinkers of 2015, Foreign Policy, IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Prize [reference link]2016, J.K. Aggarwal Prize 2016, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), One of the 40 “The great immigrants,” Carnegie Foundation, [email protected] Athena Award for Academic Leadership, University of California 2017, One of Seven Women in Technology honorees 2017, Elle Magazine, in 2018 Elected as ACM Fellow for “contributions in building large knowledge bases for machine learning and visual understanding”, “America’s Top 50 Women In Tech” by Forbes 2018, 2018 U.S. Congressional hearing by Subcommittee on Research and Technology & Subcommittee on Energy, 2019 Technical Leadership Abie Award Winner, AnitaB.org Li also contributed one chapter to the book, Architects of Intelligence: The Truth about AI from the People Building it (2018) by the American futurist Martin Ford. Li has been described as an “AI pioneer” and a “researcher bringing humanity to AI”. She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020. In May 2020, Li joined the board of directors of Twitter as an independent director. Artificial intelligence is still a field that needs huge investment and researches, scientist like Dr Fei are pacesetters when it comes to AI. The 21ST century’s challenge is a complex one solving these challenges is the responsibility of all but a woman like Dr Fei is a shinning light regardless of gender equality and affirmative attention. Support PisonTechAfrica.com For inspiring tech content and articles, PisonTechAfrica.com is the platform to go. Great content takes a lot of resources; we are poised to motivate young start-ups and give them leverage with our platform. It is a platform for inspiring tech entrepreneurs to display their talents. Africa is the next big thing for technology. PisonTechAfrica.com is the tech media platform committed to positioning Africa in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Donate Ayinla Oluwajumoke Toyosi Share This Previous ArticleHow India Became the Technology Human Resource of 21st Century Next ArticleBehind the Silicon Lagoon's Admiration is the Fintech Revolution March 28, 2021
