Fei-Fei Li sparked an AI boom — now she won't let humans fall behind
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On Feb. 18, Fei-Fei Li made headlines. The company she cofounded, World Labs, announced they’d raised $1 billion ‒ with a B ‒ in funding. Now they're poised to bring artificial intelligence into 3D. That’s the “spatial intelligence” that will make it possible for robots to do the dishes or sort your socks.
Even Li couldn’t imagine that would be possible 20 years ago, when she was fresh off her PhD and a young assistant professor working in AI.
At the time, the field was the stuff of sci-fi dystopian movies like "The Matrix" or "I, Robot" to the public. In the research community, the technology showed promise but had largely stalled.
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