How Dr Fei-Fei Li built the dataset behind modern AI - and why it still matters

Dr Fei-Fei Li built the dataset that made modern AI possible. Now she has a $5bn company. This is the story of how that happened - and why it still matters for anyone building with AI today. This is part one of a five-part deep dive into Fei-Fei Li and World Labs. In this episode I cover the origin story - from a Chinese immigrant teenager who found safety in physics, to the creation of ImageNet, the competition that relaunched neural networks, and the moment in 2012 that changed everything. I also ask the question most people skip: was anyone thinking about the implications of what they were building along the way? I'm Dr Becky Sage - Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence and former tech founder. I've worked with over 350 founders and technologists, and I make these deep dives so we can all be better stewards of the technology we're building. Full research sources and further reading: https://large-maiasaura-d69.notion.si... Parts 2-5 drop weekly - subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss them. #ResponsibleAI #AIEthics #TechFounders #FeiFeiLi #WorldLabs 0:00 How a dataset sparked a revolution 2:47 Human-centric AI vs ethical AI 6:42 Who is Fei-Fei Li 14:40 The data that changed everything 22:33 The missing piece of the AI triangle 26:14 ImageNet goes public 29:12 AlexNet and the moment it clicked