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Published · transcript-backedDr. Fei Fei Li: observation
16 Nov 2025 Lenny's Podcast The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots, and why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
“In the middle of 2015, middle of 2016, some tech companies avoid using the word AI because they were not sure if AI was a dirty word.”
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- Dr. Fei Fei Li
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- 16 Nov 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…A lot of people call you the godmother of AI. The work you did actually was the spark that brought us out of AI winter. In the middle of 2015, middle of 2016, some tech companies avoid using the word AI because they were not sure if AI was a dirty word. 2017-ish was the beginning of companies calling themselves AI companies. There's this line, I think, this was when you were presenting to Congress. There's nothing artificial about AI. It's inspired by people. It's created by people, and most importantly, it impacts people.…
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