Fei-fei Li And The Binders Full Of Women In Ai

Fei-Fei Li, a computer science researcher known for creating ImageNet, the image dataset that enabled the rapid AI advances in computer vision, was mysteriously missing from a list of twelve people published by the New York Times called “Who’s Who Behind the Dawn of the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement.” The list, which was comprised of only men, was described by the Times as “a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists” who “had worked for more than a decade to fuel AI” before chatbots “exploded in popularity.” Millions of eye rolls happened at once across the world upon reading this list, which excluded the thousands of women who have played a role in the “modern artificial intelligence movement.”