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The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, our guests have long been laying the groundwork for innovations that are transforming industries today. In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado joins Fei-Fei and Justin to explore the journey from early AI winters to the rise of deep learning and the rapid expansion of multimodal AI. From foundational advancements like ImageNet to the cutting-edge realm of spatial intelligence, Fei-Fei and Justin share the breakthroughs that have shaped the AI landscape and reveal what's next for innovation at World Labs. If you're curious about how AI is evolving beyond language models and into a new realm of 3D, generative worlds, this episode is a must-listen.

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This is fundamentally philosophically to me a different problem.

0:04.0

The previous decade had mostly been about understanding data that already exists,

0:09.0

but the next decade was going to be about understanding new data.

0:12.0

Visual, spatial intelligence is so fundamental.

0:16.7

It's as fundamental as language.

0:19.7

It is like unwrapping presents on Christmas.

0:21.4

That every day you know there's going to be some amazing new discovery,

0:24.0

some amazing new application or algorithm somewhere.

0:26.8

If we see something or if we imagine something,

0:30.9

both can converge towards generating it. I think we're in the middle of a

0:36.9

cabrian explosion. To many, the last two years of AI have felt like a light switch, pre and post

0:45.2

DPT3, pre and post being able to generate an image with natural language, and even

0:50.5

pre and post translating any video with a click of a button.

0:55.0

But to some like Dr. Faye Faye Lee, often referred to as the quote Godmother of AI and

1:00.5

longtime professor of computer science at Stanford, who by the way taught some very well-known

1:05.0

researchers like Andre Carpathi, to people like Faye, artificial intelligence unlocks have

1:09.9

existed on a multi-decade long continuum.

1:13.2

And that continuum is destined to proceed

1:15.3

into the physical spatial world.

1:17.4

At least, that's what Faye and her co-founders

1:19.7

of new company, World Labs, believe. And these four founders pioneered the ecosystem in so many ways.

1:26.2

From Faye's ImageNet to Justin Johnson's work on scene graphs, Ben Mildenhall's work on

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