Let's talk about the most influential women in AI

#1. Fei-Fei Li

She's Known as the “godmother of AI,” Fei-Fei Li’s defining influence on AI spans years of commitment to the field.

Born in Beijing and immigrating to the United States at age 16, Li has been instrumental in transforming AI from a niche technology into something broadly accessible. 

As co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, Li has brought attention to ‘human-centered AI,’ which places human values at its core. Many of her works feature on university reading lists; papers with Li as a named writer have amassed an extraordinary 285,343 citations in total.

One of Li’s key career milestones was creating ImageNet in 2007, a massive dataset containing over 15 million labeled images across 22,000 categories. 

ImageNet effectively solved one of computer vision’s most fundamental challenges: teaching machines to recognize objects with human-like accuracy.

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