The godmother of AI.
From Observer, December 4:
The new startup is working to develop A.I. models with so-called "spatial intelligence."
World Labs, a startup co-founded by Stanford A.I. pioneer Fei-Fei Li earlier this year that quickly grabbed the attention of high-profile investors, has remained relatively quiet on its products—until now. The startup yesterday (Dec. 3) provided a glimpse of one of its early projects, which takes the form of virtual 3D scenes generated from a 2D image. “This will change how we make movies, games, simulators and other digital manifestations of our physical worlds,” said World Labs in a blog post accompanied by interactive examples of its 3D worlds. The preview shines a light on Li’s larger efforts to develop A.I. models that have “spatial intelligence” and can understand and interact with the real world....
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Ha, that's nothin'. Iowahawk (David Burge) has been inserting himself into Nighthawks for years.
Previously on the good Professor:
May 2024 - "‘Godmother of A.I.’ Fei-Fei Li On Why You Shouldn’t Trust Any A.I. Company"
It's not the technology that should be feared it is the people using the technology.
In March 2016 this seemed noteworthy:
The Hottest PhD Market In the World
From The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog:
Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford University professor who is an expert in computer vision, said one of her Ph.D. candidates had an offer for a job paying more than $1 million a year, and that was only one of four from big and small companies.
--John Markoff and Steve Lohr, NYT, on the brains arms race in artificial intelligence
And in May 2024 this did:
Former Google CEO Schmidt On The Ever-Increasing Tempo Of AI
Gardels: One thing that worries Fei-Fei Li of the Stanford Institute on Human-Centered AI is the asymmetry of research funding between the Microsofts and Googles of the world and even the top universities. As you point out, there are hundreds of billions invested in compute power to climb up the capability ladder in the private sector, but scarce resources for safe development at research institutes, no less the public sector....
....Eventually, in both the U.S. and China, I suspect there will be a small number of extremely powerful computers with the capability for autonomous invention that will exceed what we want to give either to our own citizens without permission or to our competitors. They will be housed in an army base, powered by some nuclear power source and surrounded by barbed wire and machine guns.....
Again, only those with massive amounts of cash will be able to maximize the benefits of AI.
See advantage flywheels and hyper-Pareto distribution of profits if interested.
And possibly most important:
March 18 - In Nvidia's World, If You (and your company) Don't Have Money You Will Not Be Able To Compete (NVDA)
So:"'AI godmother' Fei-Fei Li raises $230 million to launch AI startup"
