Summary
Professor Fei-Fei Li, known as the 'godmother' of AI, is receiving the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering along with six others for their work in modern machine learning. This award is presented at a ceremony recognizing their contributions to advancements that support the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Li's work, especially on the ImageNet project, significantly advanced computer vision technology.
Key Facts
- Professor Fei-Fei Li is being awarded the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for her role in advancing AI.
- The award ceremony is held at St James's Palace and includes six other leading figures in AI.
- Those honored alongside Li include Prof Yoshua Bengio, Dr Bill Dally, Dr Geoffrey Hinton, Prof John Hopfield, Nvidia's founder Jensen Huang, and Meta's Dr Yann LeCun.
- Fei-Fei Li's work on the ImageNet project greatly contributed to the development of computer vision technology.
- The ImageNet project involved creating large image recognition datasets essential for AI development.
- The 2018 Turing Award recognized three male pioneers, often referred to as the "Godfathers of AI."
- Dr Geoffrey Hinton has expressed worries about AI being a potential major threat, while Prof Yann LeCun sees such concerns as exaggerated.
- Prof Li believes in a balanced and factual public discourse about AI, emphasizing a pragmatic approach.
