Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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Their wordsIt's the first time we have a unification of pixel generation and pixel reconstruction. In the world of computer vision this field has been around for more than half a century.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 1st of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsWell, spatial intelligence eventually must enable us to both generate what the space is, reason within it, and being able to edit and interact within it.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 2nd of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsBut to do that, a fundamental problem to solve is to understand the geometry and structure and the physics of the space.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 3rd of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd I do believe Atlas is a significant step forward because now with every single frame, you have a you can generate an estimate a important piece of information, which is the the view viewpoint, the camera pose. And that is the most critical information one needs about the geometry of the of the space.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 4th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsSo in the on the path to spatial intelligence, generating pixels is definitely a a early step, which we have seen with what you call it gazillions of models. But generating pixels that are truly spatially contextualized and grounded is absolutely another major step. And that is the very hard step that Atlas has taken.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 5th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsOne thing that's under appreciated on the website of the demos is the Stanford demo where Ben showed uh anywhere between 3 to 25 images you can reconstruct that entire Stanford quad. But the thing is we had to show it from aerial view. But every single input image is been standing on the ground taking a picture from the ground. So, everything you see are generated but according to the laws of reconstruction.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 6th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsI think three of us have total conviction about the scaling law. That that I think we do. I do think the exact architecture choices and data mixtures is where the the devils are in the details.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 7th of 13 in this recording
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Our reading
The biggest problem in robotics today is data, not chips; chips become the bottleneck later.
Their wordsWe should zoom out and recognize the biggest problem right now in robotics is actually data. One day it'll be chips, but for now it's data.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 8th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsThere is also a very important step called randomization. Is that you have to take the same environment and then randomize the conditions. So, the cable doesn't literally only, you know, uh bend this way. It can bend a different way or the box can have different sizes, colors, different lids, and all that.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 9th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordscuz we don't yet have a a frontier foundation model that's robust enough for for uh robotics.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 10th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsI think for me, let's go back to the first principle of intelligence. Intelligence is not sitting there stuck and just seeing something or interpreting something when it comes to space and physical space, right? It's really this uh closing the loop between seeing and experiencing and interaction.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 11th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsSo okay, so to take a evolutionary view, right? That new viewpoint prediction is exactly evolution had to solve by making animals move. You you nature give animals eyes. But nature didn't give trees eye. Eyes. Why? Because when you move, you see a new viewpoint.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 12th of 13 in this recording
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Our reading
New view prediction is to spatial intelligence what next token prediction is to language.
Their wordswe do believe very strongly that next viewpoint prediction is is the equivalent of next token prediction.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 13th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsBut the first photoreceptive cells created a evolutionary force that propelled animals to evolve because sensing the external world changes your self-perception changes the way your relationship with the external world.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 1st of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsSo we conjectured that the lack of data was a huge part of the reason that's the lack of progress in AI. So we took a departure from everybody else who are really focusing only on algorithm and said that we need data. we need data to drive these algorithms.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 2nd of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsthat child who learns about what you say kitty cat would not have the chance to download the internet of images of cat. They likely have seen three cats, 10 cats at most, but yet they're able to identify that tail as a cattail instead of a fox tail through a different kind of learning pathway.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 3rd of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsWhat happened there is actually not as revolutionary as you might think because the bottom line is it's still data.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 4th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsInternet is not some random thing. Internet is the biggest collection of human behavior in multimodal forms.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 5th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsthat thought is not captured therefore it's not on the internet therefore AI has not seen it so that is where humans still remain so unique
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 6th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsMy current conjecture is hybrid is that humans working alongside AI would help us to solve these problems whose solutions have yet to be invented.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 7th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordswe need to think about AI as a tool that helps us in our agency. It does it should not take away our agency and people who lead in today's AI should not try to talk like that this this work will take away agency from people.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 8th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsthe rhetoric around AI right now is getting really skewed because people who know what this is tend to talk down at the public.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 9th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsI think we're we're ready for complete re rewriting of how scientific discovery can be done because for ages, I don't even know how long, it relies on smart humans retaining what they have learned from other smart humans
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 10th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsSo this speaks of a very important fact that um AI learns from patterns. When the patterns are not abundant, then we have to be careful. We have to know how to use AI or how not to use AI.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 11th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordswhen the machine says I'm sorry you're so sick today it's very different from how your friend says it to you because the machine said that because it has learned through pattern when someone tells it I'm sick you should say I'm sorry you're sick instead of I'm so glad you're sick because that data exists.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 12th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordshumans are capable of doing a lot of things with our tools, but we don't do all of them. For example, today any car manufacturer can say every Friday the brake doesn't work. This is a trivial technology. There's a clock in the car's computer and it just turns off the brake every Friday. But we don't do that because it has deeply bad implications to our human society.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 13th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsWhat I would not like to see is one person or or a few people coming from industry and telling everybody what to do. I think that would be dangerous because market forces are different from uh societal norms and culture and heritage are different from uh education and ethics and and these are multistakeholder problems to solve together.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 14th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsThe absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools. So doom scrolling, passive watching of shorts, all this are not helping agency, human agency.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 15th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsLearning fundamentally respecting the hardware you're talking about takes time, takes effort, sometimes takes some pain. That is just how our brain is.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 16th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsThe other kind of danger is in the name of agency and and uh and motivation the tools are denied to our students because we're worried you cheat or worry you only got your answer from Chad GBT. That is very bad as well
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 17th of 21 in this recording
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Our reading
Prompting should be taught in schools from kindergarten onwards, as a matter of public education.
Their wordsThis is why public education is so important. This is why education is so important. I would love to see our schools K12 teaching prompting.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 18th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsThe next frontier of AI as I have been saying is beyond language because again humans develop first preverbally. evolution took, you know, 500 million years without verbal communication
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 19th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsit's not that technology should be taking their jobs away technology should be making their jobs better superpowering their creativity
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 20th of 21 in this recording
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Their wordsThey are the most important people in our society. We should be talking to them. We should be uplifting them. We should be supporting them. We should be providing resources to them.
↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 21st of 21 in this recording