Preface
Li Feifei is a Chinese-American, and his achievements in the United States can be said to be a lot of vehicles.
She has not only served as a professor at Stanford University, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and many other senior positions, but also has become one of the most influential leaders in the science and technology industry with her own strength, and is a well-deserved AI goddess in the United States.
However, even though the United States has unlimited scenery and prospects, she has always been thinking about her motherland.
In an interview, she publicly said directly in front of all Americans: "If I win the Nobel Prize one day, I will definitely accept the prize as a Chinese."
So, Li Feifei is in a foreign country, with what belief does he want to win glory for the country so much?
Li Feifei's background
Li Feifei was born in Beijing, because his parents were very literate intellectuals.
So Li Feifei is very close to learning, Li Feifei has been very smart since she was a child, and she has a very high comprehension ability in learning, especially in mathematics and science, and her grades are very good.
In addition to learning, his parents' thinking is also very avant-garde, and they will often teach and train Li Feifei's ability to deal with things and life skills, which gives Li Feifei the ability to take care of himself and be independent beyond ordinary people.
With the change of the times, a wave of "going abroad" began to rise in society, and Li Feifei's parents decided to continue to live in China after discussion.
However, because their relatives and friends had gone abroad, after they considered Li Feifei's achievements, they still wanted to give Li Feifei a better education by going abroad, so their family also gave up their relatively good life in China and came to the United States to live and study.
Life in the United States when they first came to the United States was not as good as they imagined, because of the language and life differences, they were very hindered, Li Feifei's parents originally had good jobs in China, and their income was also very considerable.
However, when he arrived in the United States, he could only start from the grassroots level, and the salary he earned was also very low.
At the beginning, because there was very serious racial discrimination in the United States, Li Feifei was not less bullied and isolated by his classmates in school.
Fortunately, the growth environment has also given Li Feifei a lot of courage, and she began to care about the ridicule of her classmates.
She began to put all her attention into learning, and in addition to learning at the intellectual level, she also practiced her speaking and pronunciation.
In addition, because the family has just come to the United States, so their life is very poor, in addition to the work of his parents, Li Feifei will also use the rest time to wash dishes and find various part-time jobs, although the salary is not high, but it can barely subsidize the family.
Although Li Feifei is working and studying at the same time, her academic performance has never fallen, and she has always maintained a very stable academic performance, which is still gradually rising
This also made the classmates who used to bully Li Feifei begin to have a new understanding and understanding of this outsider.
Later, with the joint efforts of the family, life finally became better, and after Li Feifei's life improved, he no longer went out to work part-time, but put all his focus on studying.
Through studying day and night, Li Feifei's situation gradually improved, and he was also admitted to the very famous Princeton University with excellent results, which is a very well-known school with very good educational resources.
And Li Feifei also performed very well in the university, was deeply loved by the teachers, and won a full scholarship at the end of the semester.
In terms of disciplines, Li Feifei chose the physics department that he is good at, and in such an environment, Li Feifei's grades have improved by leaps and bounds, and he has quickly completed his studies.
Step into work
After graduating from university, many well-known companies have handed Li Feifei olive branches, wanting to invite this talented person to join him, but Li Feifei does not care very much about the invitations of these well-known companies.
At this time, by chance, Li Feifei became very interested in Tibetan medicine, so he decided to explore Tibetan medicine.
Although Li Feifei's major has nothing to do with Tibetan medicine, her parents are still very supportive of Li Feifei's own decision, and she herself wants to try a few more fields.
So after making a decision, I returned to China and went directly to Tibet to start research on Tibetan medicine.
When he first came to Tibet, altitude sickness and the living environment seriously affected Li Feifei, but Li Feifei did not feel flinched by these difficulties.
Instead, she faced the problems and difficulties she encountered, and with her perseverance, she finally overcame those difficulties.
She devoted herself to the study of Tibetan medicine for about a year or so, and discovered the value of many Tibetan medicines, which made Li Feifei have a great harvest.
On the day of research, during the break, Li Feifei accidentally saw the AI technology that was slowly sprouting because of the development of the Internet.
Another idea germinated in Li Feifei's mind, and after completing a year-long study of Tibetan medicine in Tibet, she immediately returned to the United States and joined the California Institute of Technology for further study, successfully obtaining a master's and doctoral degree, which once again paved the way for her achievement.
There are still many companies that are not willing to give up on Li Feifei's achievements and want to dig this talent into their own companies, but Li Feifei also has his own goals and plans.
In the end, she chose to enter the world's top artificial intelligence laboratory, and also chose the field of computer vision recognition, which was one of the most difficult topics at the time.
Because this technology was just budding at that time, not many people were optimistic about this project, and even thought that Li Feifei must have a brain problem, so he would choose this field for development.
However, Li Feifei didn't care about other people's eyes, and generally she would do her best to complete the things she decided.
After getting to know the field in detail, she began to build her own team and look for people who share her interests to develop in this field.
After the team was formed, a detailed development plan was carried out, and they devoted themselves to the research in this field, and soon they faced the first problem, which was about funding.
At the beginning, all these funds were borne by Li Feifei himself, and because the special needs of the research project were also very high, Li Feifei could not hold on to it.
But there is no endless road, and at this time, the instructor who was once optimistic about Li Feifei extended a helping hand to her.
The instructor made up the funds for Li Feifei, so that she had better prospects for performance, and Li Feifei did not disappoint the teacher, and with the joint efforts of her and the team, they jointly created an artificial intelligence project.
This project is mainly for visual recognition software, in order to better complete this project that requires a huge data base, Li Feifei found the Amazon platform for cooperation.
Through their joint efforts, in three years, they successfully researched this project, and everyone admired Li Feifei's achievements and vision.
Moreover, in order to allow more people to experience the advantages of artificial intelligence, Li Feifei decided to make this database public and use it for free, which made many people admire Li Feifei's mind very much.
Shortly after the completion of this project, Li Feifei received an interview from a reporter, in the course of which the reporter asked Li Feifei whether humans would be replaced by artificial intelligence in the future development.
After hearing this question, Li Feifei said with a faint smile that there is still a difference between humans and artificial intelligence, and the advantage of human beings is that people have thoughts and love, which artificial intelligence can never do, because love is invincible and unique to human beings.
This is because the research of such technology has helped the scientific and technological community to have a qualitative leap and improvement, so Li Feifei is known as the "leader of AI".
At that time, Google was also a very influential search engine, so at the kind invitation of Google, Li Feifei served as the vice chairman of Google and the main researcher of Google cloud computing.
However, later in 2018, it was said that because Google was involved in a contract with the military, this cooperation was likely to lead to the leakage of military secrets, so many people wrote at that time asking Google to stop cooperating with the military.
It's just that Google insists on going its own way, and Li Feifei feels that he and Google are different from each other, so Li Feifei stepped down from the position of vice chairman, and later returned to Stanford University to teach.
So far, Li Feifei has been successfully elected as one of the most influential leaders in the technology industry selected by the Forbes Board of Directors in July 2022.
In Li Feifei's body, although there are many achievements and titles worth showing off, she doesn't care about them, he thinks that as long as he does his own thing, those titles are just his foil.
What Li Feifei cares about the most is the identity of a Chinese, she once said: "If I have the opportunity to win the Nobel Prize in the future, I want to receive it as a Chinese."
This kind of patriotic feeling has moved many people.
epilogue
Although Li Feifei has lived in the United States since he was a child, he has never forgotten his roots and motherland in Li Feifei's heart, and this kind of patriotism and loyalty to the country is still rarely comparable to that of Chinese Americans.
Although Li Feifei has not won the Nobel Prize, her contributions to the scientific and technological community are still very influential.
She is also a role model for the new generation to follow, and I wish her to fulfill her wish to receive the Nobel Prize as a Chinese.