If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.
As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.
I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.
The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.
There's a great phrase, written in the '70s: 'The definition of today's AI is a machine that can make a perfect chess move while the room is on fire.' It really speaks to the limitations of AI. In the next wave of AI research, if we want to make more helpful and useful machines, we've got to bring back the contextual understanding.
I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.
I imagine a world in which AI is going to make us work more productively, live longer, and have cleaner energy.
We need to inject humanism into our AI education and research by injecting all walks of life into the process.
I really believe there are no borders for science.
We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.
The paradigm shift of the ImageNet thinking is that while a lot of people are paying attention to models, let's pay attention to data. Data will redefine how we think about models.
I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.
If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.
More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in explosive speciation of the animal kingdom. 500 million years later, AI technology is at the verge of changing the landscape of how humans live, work, communicate,and shape our environment.
One thing ImageNet changed in the field of AI is suddenly people realized the thankless work of making a dataset was at the core of AI research.
No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.
Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.
We all have a responsibility to make sure everyone - including companies, governments, and researchers - develop AI with diversity in mind.
For me it's very important to think about AI's impact in the world, and one of the most important missions is to democratize this technology.
What makes humans unique is that evolution gave us the most incredible and sophisticated vision system, motor system, and language system, and they all work together.
