AI 'godmother' Fei-Fei Li says she is 'proud to be different'

AI 'godmother' Fei-Fei Li says she is 'proud to be different'

Professor Fei-fei Li is being honoured for her pioneering contributions to the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI).

They are being recognised for their contributions to the development of modern machine learning, a field that underpins the rapid advancement of AI.

Those honoured alongside her are Prof Yoshua Bengio, Dr Bill Dally, Dr Geoffrey Hinton, Prof John Hopfield, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang and Meta's Chief AI Scientist Dr Yann LeCun.

The King will present the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering to Prof Li and six others during a ceremony at St James's Palace.

The 'godmother' of AI, Professor Fei-Fei Li has told the BBC that being the only woman amongst seven pioneers of artificial Intelligence being presented with a top engineering prize by the King today makes her "proud to be different".

Who are the Godparents of AI?

Dr Hinton, Prof Bengio and Yann LeCun, currently Chief AI Scientist at Meta have widely been recognised as the "Godfathers of AI" since they were jointly awarded the 2018 Turing Award.

There is however only one so-called "godmother" of AI and Prof Li told the BBC she has grown to accept the moniker.

"I would not call myself godmother of anything," she said.

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