Every month two million Indian children are born, which means that probably almost a couple of million are entering the workforce every month. They all want to stand out, to create their own space in the work world. How can someone out of this cohort become Devi Parikh? Your advice could be very precious for them. Yeah, I don't know if I have anything useful to say there. The things that have worked for me have been sort of pursuing things that I find interesting. that I feel excited about, because I think that is what makes it sustainable. And that is what allows me to sort of put in a lot of time and effort and keep pushing for things. My general philosophy tends to be that I'll have the best shot at succeeding if the thing that I'm doing is something I like. And so that's what I've tended to optimize. That's not necessarily the most strategic career advice, like there are things that I enjoy doing that aren't necessarily very impactful in sort of the traditional way of thinking about impact. And so that may not be the most strategic thing for a career. But yeah, that's how I operated and it has worked out. How do you define today what your work is about, Devi? Yeah, yeah. It's been a while since I've had to describe it. I've worked in AI for a couple of decades at this point and my background was in computer vision. Over time, I 21 DAILY WACV Saturday Devi Parikh
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