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If Alan Turing is the father of AI , Fei-Fei Li is perhaps the descendant who inherited the keys to his garden shed . Li is responsible for realising that while algorithms were the engine of machine learning , creating colossal datasets with which to train them was the fuel they ran on . She distilled the ImageNet project , a labelled image dataset that supercharged the arrival of visual ML and ushered in the age of deep learning . ImageNet ’ s dataset has been accused of having embedded bias , and has made changes to its training data to correct it . But Li is no crazy cyborg . She admits , “ If we ’ re worried about killer robots , we should really be worried about the creators of the technology . We want the creators of this technology to represent our values and represent our shared humanity .” aimagazine . com