The ‘godmother of AI’ has a new startup already worth $1 billion
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Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for WIRED Fei-Fei Li, the renowned computer scientist known as the godmother of AI," has created a startup dubbed World Labs. In just four months, its already valued at more than $1 billion, the Financial Times reported.
World Labs hopes to use human-like processing of visual data to make AI capable of advanced reasoning, Reuters reported in May. The research to make it human-like, much like what ChatGPT is trying to do with generative AI, is still ongoing.
Li is best known for her contributions to computer vision, a branch of AI dedicated to helping machines interpret and comprehend visual information. She also spearheaded the development of ImageNet, an extensive visual database used for visual object recognition research. Li headed AI at...