it made you feel and why it made you feel the way that it did, the negative experience. And then, is there anything that can be done differently for the future? I think that's the way I look at it. And also interesting: is that situation in your circle of control? There can be some negative situations that you simply cannot influence. But there can be other situations that you can influence, maybe by changing your behavior or some part of you. And then you just need to have an honest conversation and be like, well, that's the reality. And this is what I learned. And this is how I will modify at least my behavior. It could be that you could influence it or if you cannot influence the situation, then you can influence the way you react to it. Either way, there is growth. Tell me about the people that you manage. Are you sometimes surprised thinking whether you would have been able to do that in their place? Yeah, definitely. Many, many times I feel so enriched by my team. And, you know, they're very, very skilled at what they do and they're very fast. There was one moment when we were doing a demo for GTC. GTC is Nvidia's flagship conference, the GPU technology conference. And a lot of folks from my team come from a graphics background. And people in the graphics world are very good at system level things like building demos of their research ideas. And there was one researcher in my team who basically built the whole thing behind the scenes from scratch to finish and was much more efficient than like 10 engineers doing it. I was completely blown away by how much work had gone behind the scenes. And there was just this one person doing everything. Shalini, we spoke a lot about the past and somehow also about the present. Where do we go from here? I'll probably frame this question in the context of AI, maybe in general computer vision and where the field is going. It's a very interesting tipping point we're at where I feel like it's very exciting in some sense that AI has gotten to the point that it's mainstream in people's world and psyche now. I think for a really long time, AI researchers like us were 15 DAILY CVPR Sunday Shalini DeMello
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