Li Feifei: Let the Machine have "eyes" that distinguish things.

Source: China News Network

It is difficult to have a technological development that is as exciting and unsettling as artificial intelligence. If the machine has a "sense of independence", what kind of world human beings will face. In all kinds of science fiction works, people's discussion is endless.

Unlike the imaginative literary imagination, the Chinese scientist Li Feifei, who is known as the "AI goddess", replied rigorously and calmly: "The development of artificial intelligence is just beginning, the task that the machine can accomplish at this stage is very simple, the imagination of literature and art is very far away." ”

Recently, by the Phoenix Satellite TV and other host of the "Impact of the World Chinese Festival" in Beijing Awards. Thanks to its great contribution to the field of artificial intelligence, Stanford University tenured professor, Google Cloud Artificial intelligence and machine learning scientist Li Feifei became the award-winning person in the field of scientific research.

At the awards scene, Li Feifei humbly expressed "guilt." She said: "If the history of human science as a long river, I am just a drop of water in this river, very fortunate to have predecessors in the lead us to go forward." ”

In fact, Li Feifei's name is almost unknown in the AI world. Her field of computer vision and machine learning is an important branch of artificial intelligence, dedicated to making machines "see" and recognize objects, and to infer the stereo shapes of objects, and even to understand the associations between things, human emotions, movements and intentions.

All over the world, visual information is so diverse that it is not easy to "understand" the machine. To this end, Li Feifei launched the imagenet (image recognition data set) program in 2007 to establish a large database for computer image recognition. At present, Imagenet already has tens of thousands of manually filtered, annotated pictures.

The Imagenet object Recognition contest, held annually from 2010 to 2017, attracts contestants from the world's top universities and research institutions. The tournament aims to determine which algorithm can identify the image in the dataset at the lowest error rate, which many people call the "Olympics" in the field of computer vision, which has greatly propelled the field forward.

The Imagenet program also makes Li Feifei a "star" in the field of artificial intelligence. Looking back, the scientists who are now focused on the industry have a bumpy growth experience.

Li Feifei was born in Beijing in 1976 and emigrated to the United States with his parents at age 16. She started learning English from scratch, and in order to raise her tuition, she served dishes in restaurants, worked as a janitor, and opened a laundromat, and had a hard time without losing her dignity. "I don't feel uneasy about that because my parents are also working hard and we just want to survive here." ”

From 1995 to 2005, Li Feifei studied at Princeton University and California Polytechnic University. After graduating from the Ph. D., she chose the field of computer vision that was not favoured at the time. At the start of the Imagenet program, the research funding is seriously inadequate because of the unpopular research. In the most difficult time, she had laughed at the "re-opening of the laundry to raise funds".

The outside world often put on the "Li Feifei" "inspirational" label. In her interview, she said: "The biggest challenge in life is to live up to your greatest potential, to live up to your responsibilities, and to be honest with the business you want to pursue in your heart." ”

The development of AI has not been more than 60 years, but the public has paid more attention to its development prospects. Where is the future of artificial intelligence? And how the future of mankind will interact. "No matter how intelligent the machine becomes, it reflects and represents our own values," Li Feifei says.

"Artificial intelligence is a very young science that will continue to play a vital role for a long time to come." "Li Feifei look forward to, more and more young people into the field, the people-oriented spirit to the future technology, so that artificial intelligence" distributed warmth.

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