Dr Fei Fei Li

The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li

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Opening

Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): A lot of people call you the godmother of AI. The work you did actually was the spark that brought us out of AI winter. Dr. Fei Fei Li (00:00:07): In the middle of 2015, middle of 2016, some tech companies avoid using the word AI because they were not sure if AI was a dirty word. 2017-ish was the beginning of companies calling themselves AI companies. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:22): There's this line, I think, this was when you were presenting to Congress....

The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.

Low-ego framing

2015, middle of 2016, some tech companies avoid using the word AI because they were not sure if AI was a dirty word. 2017-ish was the beginning of companies calling themselves AI companies. Lenny...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly

Fei Fei Li (01:02:20): Thank you. Lenny Rachitsky (01:02:23): So I just want to say congrats to you and your team. Let me talk about your founder...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Carry memory

Lenny Rachitsky (01:04:47): Yeah. You mentioned this point that I want to come back to that if you just look over the course of your career, you were at all of the major collections of humans that led to so...

Returns to something said earlier, proving the conversation has memory.

Accept praise cleanly

Lenny Rachitsky (01:19:02): Amazing. Fei-Fei, thank you so much for being here. Dr. Fei Fei Li (01:19:04): Thank you, Lenny. Lenny Rachitsky (01:19:06): Bye everyone.

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ending

Lenny Rachitsky (01:18:17): What a beautiful way to end it. Such a tie back to where we started about how it's up to us and take individual responsibility for what AI will do in our lives. Final question, where can folks find Marble? Where can they go, maybe try to join World Labs if they want to? What's the website? Where do people go? Dr. Fei Fei Li (01:18:34): Well, World Labs website is www.worldlabs.ai and you can find our research progress there. We have technical blogs....

The ending stays curious after the formal conversation is almost done.