"The ... memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution. Known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence, Dr. Li has spent more than two decades at the forefront of her field. But her career in science was improbable from the start. As immigrants, her family faced a difficult transition from China's middle class to American poverty. And their lives were made even harder as they struggled to care for her ailing mother ... Fei-Fei's adolescent knack for physics endured, however, and positioned her to make a crucial contribution to the breakthrough we now call AI, placing her at the center of a global transformation. Over the last decades, her work has brought her face-to-face with the extraordinary possibilities--and the extraordinary dangers--of the technology she loves. [This book] is a story of science in the first person, documenting one of the century's defining moments from the inside"--Dust jacket flap.
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