# How we're teaching computers to understand pictures

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2015
- Speaker: Fei-Fei Li
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/fei_fei_li_how_we_re_teaching_computers_to_understand_pictures)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too. What's next? In a thrilling talk, computer vision expert Fei-Fei Li describes the state of the art -- including the database of 15 million photos her team built to "teach" a computer to understand pictures -- and the key insights yet to come.

## Lectures

1. [How we're teaching computers to understand pictures](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/fei_fei_li_how_we_re_teaching_computers_to_understand_pictures/fad59886edc7), 18 min (TED's player)