#fei-fei-li

#fei-fei-li

Don't count on a college degree to land your dream job in Silicon Valley. Increasingly, founders and tech companies are judging talent by how quickly someone can learn, adapt, and build - not on how long they spent in a lecture hall - reshaping traditional pathways into the workforce. Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer science professor widely known as the "Godmother of AI," is one example of this.

Li immigrated to the United States at 15, arriving with her parents in Parsippany, New Jersey, with little English or money. To get by, her parents worked cashier jobs and Li worked in Chinese restaurants. When her mother's health declined just as Li entered college at Princeton, the family needed to find a way to "make some money to survive," she toldBloomberg.

"We see that [the] world model is just as big and exciting, if not more [than the previous eras]," Li, who is also CEO of the company, told The Verge in an interview.

I would not call myself godmother of anything,