If We Want Machines to Think, We Need to Teach Them to See

It’s 2025 (give or take), and the long-awaited Big One has hit the San Francisco Bay Area. In the frenetic aftermath, teams of specialized rescue workers begin tearing through piles of wreckage—searching for signs of life, administering care, and calling for backup. These first responders aren’t Red Cross volunteers or paramedics. As Stanford University’s leading AI scientist Fei-Fei Li imagines it, they’re robots with the smarts to “see” through their immediate surroundings and respond to...

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