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Fei-Fei Li

What Fei-Fei Li thinks about LLMs

@fei-fei-li · 38 positions · 0 changes of mind

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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5 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Fei-Fei Li has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingA child who has seen ten cats learns what a machine needs the whole internet of cat photos for, by a learning pathway nobody has solved.

    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

  3. Our readingThe internet is not a random pile of content but the largest capture of human behaviour ever made, which is the whole reason AI trained on it works.

    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

  5. Our readingA thought that was never captured was never uploaded, so AI has never seen it, and that is where humans remain unique.

    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

  7. Our readingDenying students AI because you fear they will cheat is its own harm, as bad as letting the tool take their motivation away.

    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

    motivation

  9. Our readingThe next frontier of AI lies beyond language, because intelligence in nature ran for 500 million years before words existed.

    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