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Paul Taylor: AI Doomerism, 21 March 2024

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma 
by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar.
Bodley Head, 332 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 1 84792 948 8
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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI 
by Fei-Fei Li.
Flatiron, 322 pp., £25.99, December 2023, 978 1 250 89793 0
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... AI’ typically has to be trained on a large number of accurately labelled images. In 2003, Fei-Fei Li, then a PhD student at Caltech, presented a conference paper introducing the idea of ‘one-shot’ learning. She showed that a network trained to identify faces, motorbikes and spotted cats needed to be trained on only one example of an aeroplane ...

AI’s Scale

Donald MacKenzie, 5 February 2026

... each labelled by a human being. It was set up by the Stanford University computer scientist Fei-Fei Li and her colleagues, who recruited 49,000 people via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, which enables the hiring of large numbers of online gig workers. Also around 2010, specialists in neural networks began to realise that they could do lots of ...

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