The Worlds I See
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The Worlds I See
| Full title | The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI |
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| Author | Fei-Fei Li |
| Published | 2023 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Fei-Fei Li’s memoir, from her family’s arrival in New Jersey and years in her parents’ dry-cleaning shop to building ImageNet — the labelled dataset that gave deep learning something big enough to learn on. A research story told as a personal one, ending in an argument about what gets built and who decides. |
The Worlds I See
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Denver International Airport — November 2023 (Books photo album)
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The a16z infrastructure team — one of only two non-fiction entries on the a16z Infra Reading List, which frames it as reading “like a startup founder’s journey, except the product is modern AI,” running from “maybe computers can identify edges?” to deepfakes.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from; Non-fiction section, its own entry.
- Fei-Fei Li — the author and subject.
- Computer Vision — the field ImageNet reorganised.
- Deep Learning — what ImageNet made trainable at scale.
- Machine Learning — the broader discipline.
- Artificial Intelligence — the arc the memoir sits inside.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates the list.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.