Fei-Fei Li Quotes

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.

We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.

We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.