#839: Dr. Fei-Fei Li, The Godmother of AI — Asking Audacious Questions, Civilizational Technology, and Finding Your North Star

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it's my job to deconstruct world class performers. I interview them to tease out the habits, routines, frameworks, et cetera, that you can apply to your own lives. My guest today is Dr. Fei Fei Lee. She is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. She's been called the Godmother of AI. She's a founding co-director of Stanford's Human Centered AI Institute. And the co-founder and CEO of World Labs, a generative AI company focusing on spatial. She's also the author of The World's I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI. Her memoir. Her story is incredible. It is one of beating the odds. On so many different levels.

And uh let's get straight to it. doctor Favely. Optimal minimal. At this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. Can I ask you a personal question? No, it is kinda.

I'm a cybernetic organism, living tissue over metal endoskeleton. Me So Doctor Lee, it is nice to see you. Thanks for making the time. Hi Tim, very nice to be here. Very excited.

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