Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Co-Founder & CEO, World Labs. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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She created ImageNet, a benchmark dataset instrumental in the modern deep learning and computer vision revolutions. She is a professor at Stanford University, co-director of Stanford HAI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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Everything Dr. Fei-Fei Li said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Li: AGI is more of a marketing term than a scientific one
“I feel AGI is more a marketing term than a scientific term. As a scientist and technologist, AI is my North Star, is my field's North Star, and I'm happy people call it whatever name they want to call it.”
Dr. Fei-Fei Li: Scaling laws alone are not enough; AI needs innovation
“I think scaling laws of more data, more GPUs and bigger current model architecture is there's still a lot to be done there, but I absolutely think we need to innovate more.”
Li: Self-driving cars on 2D surfaces are simpler than 3D robotics
“And self-driving cars are much simpler robots. They're just metal boxes running on two D surfaces. And the goal is not to touch anything. Robot is three D things running in three D world. And the goal is to touch things.”
Li: Spatial intelligence and world models are as important as LLMs
“We believe that spatial intelligence and world modeling is As important, if not more, to language models and complementary to language models.”
Li: World Labs created the first generative model outputting genuine 3D worlds
“We've spent a year and plus Building the world's first generative model that can output genuinely three D worlds.”
Li: World Labs runs real-time 3D video generation on a single H100
“Just a couple of weeks ago, we rolled out the world's first real-time demoable real-time video generation on a single H 100 GPU.”
Fei-Fei Li: AGI will not be complete without spatial intelligence
“To me, AGI will not be complete. Without spatial intelligence.”
Fei-Fei Li: World models require structured priors beyond brute-force scaling
“Constructing world model might be a little more nuanced. The world is more structured. There might be signals that we need to use to guide it. You can call it in the shape of prior. You can call it supervision in your data, whatever it is.”
Fei-Fei Li: Modern AGI fundamentally mirrors the original 1950s AI goal
“The founding fathers of AI who came together in 1956 in Dartmouth, you know, the John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky of them, they wanted to solve the problem of machines that can think, and that's a problem that Turing, Alan Turing, also put forward a few years e…”
Fei-Fei Li: World Labs is the first company building 3D foundation models
“So we are the first company we know of that is solving this the three D generation foundation model problem.”
Fei-Fei Li: AI language processing is 'solved to a huge extent'
“I would say language is solved to a huge extent.”
Fei-Fei Li: Building only humanoid robots is highly energy inefficient
“My hypothesis is that the requirements of different tasks are so vast that having very few form or sticking with one form is. Energy, energy inefficient. And a lot of tasks can be done and should be done by much more energy efficient form factors.”
Li: Modern AI has met Alan Turing's standard for a thinking machine
“And of course he has a specific way of testing this concept of thinking machine, which is a conversational chatbot, which to his standard, we now have a thinking machine”
Li: Big data, neural networks, and GPUs remain core to modern AI
“If you look at the ingredients of what brought chat GPT to the world, technically is still use these three ingredients. Now it's internet scale data. Mostly texts is a much more complex neural network architecture than. But it's still neural network and a lot …”
Li: Current AI cannot independently derive Newton's 17th-century laws of motion
“Let's give AI all the data, including modern instruments data of celestial bodies, which Newton did not have, and give it to that, and just ask AI to create the sixth, 17th century set of equations on the laws of bodily movements. Today's AI cannot do that.”
Li: World models and spatial intelligence are essential for embodied AI
“I think world modeling and spatial intelligence Is a key missing piece of embodied AI.”
Li: Robotics trails LLMs because training data lacks 3D physical actions
“In in language, because they have this perfect setup where their training data are in words, eventually tokens, and then they produce a model that outputs words. So you have this perfect alignment between what you hope to get, which we call objective function,…”
Li: Virtual production directors reported Marble reduced production time by 40x
“We were collaborating with those technical artists and directors, and they were saying this has cut our production time by 40 X.”
Fei-Fei Li: ChatGPT opened the door to models passing the Turing test
“Twenty-twenty-two November, ChadGBT blasted open the door of truly working generation models that can basically pass the Turing test and all that.”
Fei-Fei Li: 3D spatial intelligence is combinatorially harder than language models
“The real world is three D, and if you add time, it's four D, but just, let's just confine ourselves within space. It's fundamentally three D. So that by itself is a much more combinatorially harder problem.”
Fei-Fei Li: Hardware and software convergence will eventually enable the metaverse
“I'm actually really, really excited by metaverse. I know so many people are kind of still like it's still not working. I know it's still not working. That's why I'm excited because I think the convergence of hardware and software will be coming. So that's also…”
Fei-Fei Li: AI capabilities have completely outrun theoretical understanding
“On the theoretical side, I find it fascinating that the AI capability has a hundred percent outrun theory. We don't know how, you know, we don't have explainability. We don't know how to figure out other causality.”
Fei-Fei Li: Open-source AI must be protected across academia and industry
“I think open source is, should be protected. I think if there is efforts of open source, both in public sector as like academia, as well as a private sector is so important. It's so important for the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It's so important for public sect…”
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 Y COMBINATORLEDGER | Co-Founder & CEO, World Labs | 1 | 14 | 100% 3/3 | full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast → |