What was the initial spark that led to the creation of ImageNet in 2006?

Dr. Fei-Fei Li
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Co-founder & CEO at World Labs

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
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At the time, the entire research field was focused on developing algorithms, and nobody was paying attention to data. My students and I had an epiphany that machine learning algorithms needed to be trained on massive amounts of structured data to get smarter and more accurate.

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