Home Speakers Fei-Fei Li Quote As one of the scientists who helped usher in the era of modern AI, my motivation has always been clear: AI must augment human capability, not replace it.
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Building spatially intelligent AI requires something even more ambitious than LLMs: world models, a new type of generative models whose capabilities of understanding, reasoning, generation and interaction with the semantically, physically, geometrically and dynamically complex worlds - virtual or real - are far beyond the reach of today’s LLMs. Essay From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI's Next Frontier Nov 10, 2025
Spatial Intelligence is the scaffolding upon which our cognition is built. Essay From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI's Next Frontier Nov 10, 2025
The vision of autonomous robots remains intriguing but speculative, far from the fixtures of daily life that futurists have long promised. Essay From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI's Next Frontier Nov 10, 2025
Yet they remain wordsmiths in the dark; eloquent but inexperienced, knowledgeable but ungrounded.
On the same topics Blog The Overhang Sep 18, 2026
In fact, the new GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 are already enough for transformative impact in large sections of the economy and they can reliably do weeks worth of human work when properly guided and harnessed. Blog The Overhang Sep 18, 2026
Making great things with AI means knowing which AI outputs to keep, which to discard, and which to use as raw material for something the AI would never have generated on its own. Blog The Overhang Sep 18, 2026
My point is that, while there is a lot of debate over what future models will do, the current capabilities of existing models are barely being used, and are often not even well understood. Blog The Overhang Sep 18, 2026
The capability overhang, the gap between what these models can do and what almost anyone is doing with them, is an opportunity because most people don't bring their own advantages to AI, and those who do get much more out of it. Blog The Overhang Sep 18, 2026
You are not trying to compete with AI in producing outputs, that is a losing game. Instead, you want to use your human advantages as basis of working with AI to do things that neither of you could do alone. Blog I do not want your brains to rot Sep 17, 2026
Cognitive offloading is a strategic delegation that costs nothing. Cognitive surrender is something different; an uncritical abdication of reasoning itself. And there is something about AI, about its allure and potency, that could make surrender far more widespread. About this quote 
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