Scientists are people who are curious and want to pursue knowledge and pursue truth, and this still remains the most timeless and priceless value of a scientific career. My advice to an early-career scientist is to remain true to your passion and curiosity and that sense of mission to discover knowledge and uncover innovation. It's also very important to be using the tools of the moment, of the century. There are a lot of new tools to uplevel our own scientific research and scientific quest.
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Fei-Fei Li
Professor of computer science at Stanford University; creator of ImageNet
United States · b. 1976
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Born in Beijing and emigrated to the United States at fifteen. Led the creation of ImageNet, the labelled image dataset that underpinned the deep-learning breakthroughs of the 2010s. Founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and author of The Worlds I See (2023).
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Being a scientist is about resilience because science is exploring the unknown, just as an immigrant is exploring the unknown. In both, you are on an uncertain journey and you have to find your own North Star.
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Stanford HAI interview marking publication of The Worlds I See, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI)
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