Dr. Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), the Godmother of AI, on the origin of computer vision and why spatial intelligence is the next frontier.
At AI Startup School in San Francisco.
01:00 - Origins of ImageNet
02:15 - The Dream to Make Machines See
03:28 - A paradigm shift in AI
05:50 - AlexNet and Deep Learning
08:00 - Evolving Computer Vision
12:20 - Building World Labs
13:00 - The next frontier in AI
14:20 - Why Spatial Intelligence Is Harder Than Language
18:40 - Technical Barriers for Vision-Based AI
20:00 - AI is more than LLMs
25:50 - Fei Fei’s Journey
29:30 - Mentoring some of the legends of AI
33:00 - Audience Q&A
🧵Final Take:
A.I helps you start.
But to last, you need:
🧠 A clear goal
🤝 People around you
📈 Simple systems
You don’t need money to do this.
You need clarity, community, and consistency.
✅Unite. ✅Build. ✅Trade. ✅Teach. ✅Repeat.
Share your experience👇
#TheWillToFly🦅
3. Move With Purpose
AI enables : Activity ≠ progress.
📍 Issue: Brand built, but purpose unclear.
Instead:
✅ List: Who’s helped? What’s solved?
✅ Set offer: R50 service/product/package
✅ Test locally or online
🎯 Aim: Build a business solving real issues, not just posting.
@SBmatters_za Look within your community for unmet needs not covered by other businesses. Pick one solution that aligns with you and use 1,200k of the 12,000k to test that business. If you succeed, great; if you fail, lesson learned. https://t.co/V1wUTJAx4p
🇿🇦 While we’re busy building digital solutions for the Attention Economy, there’s a huge hidden opportunity most overlook:the products we use daily.Let’s talk about how South Africans can innovate at home,and still think global.🧵👇
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