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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: 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…”
Fei-Fei Li: Visual intelligence requires understanding and acting in the world
“Visual intelligence is not just perceiving. It's really understanding the world and do things in the world.”
Fei-Fei Li: AlexNet was the first time two GPUs powered deep learning
“It's not just convolutional neural network. It was also the first time that two GPUs were put together by Alex and his team. And were used for the computing of deep learning. So, it was really the first moment of data, GPUs, and neural network coming together.”
Fei-Fei Li: Meta open-sources AI to drive platform ecosystem adoption
“They are right now, their business model is not selling the model yet. They, they're using it to grow the ecosystem so that people come to their platform. So open source makes a lot of sense”
Fei-Fei Li: Reconstructing 3D worlds from 2D projections is mathematically ill-posed
“Whether it's your eye, your retina, or a camera, it's always collapsing in three D to two D. And you have to appreciate how hard it is. It's mathematically ill post.”