Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li has been nicknamed the "godmother of AI." She recently wrote a memoir about her childhood in China, struggles as an immigrant in New Jersey, and the curiosity and relationships that propelled her to the top of the AI field. In this episode, I share my takeaways from her memoir, "The Worlds I See."
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