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How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

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Prof. Fei-Fei Li led a team at Princeton to create a new dataset that would be far larger than any that had come before.

She faced skepticism from friends and colleagues, who doubted that the machine learning algorithms of the day would benefit from such a vast collection of images.

Li tells the story of ImageNet in her recent memoir, The Worlds I See .

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