Friday, October 27, 2023
10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST)
ETB 1020
Doug Burger
Technical Fellow | Microsoft
Title: “The New AI Computing Stack“
Talking Points:
- Emergent capabilities of large language models, built on top of deep learning
- The intersection of traditional computing and the AI stack
- The evolution of the AI stack, key challenges and problems
- Future implications of the tandem working of the traditional and AI stacks
Abstract
We have entered a new era of computing. Large language models, built on top of deep learning, have shown surprising emergent capabilities.
These capabilities, such as rich semantic understanding, ability to generate content, and ability to plan and reason, will change how people use computers and for what computers can effectively be used.
This AI stack is effectively a second general class of computing that intersects with the traditional computing stack in surprising and compelling ways.
In this talk I will discuss how the AI stack is evolving, some of the key challenges that we are currently facing, and the most important problems to be working on in this area.
If we are successful, and these challenges are solved, these two computing stacks working in tandem will transform and up-level humanity’s capabilities.
Biography
Doug Burger is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. From 1999-2008, he served on the Computer Sciences faculty at UT-Austin, where he co-led the TRIPS project with Steve Keckler.
From 2008-2018, he was a researcher in Microsoft Research, where he led the Catapult and Brainwave projects, which both shipped at large scale in Microsoft’s datacenter infrastructure.
From 2018-2022 he served as a product executive in Azure’s new hardware group, leading teams architecting large-scale AI infrastructure.
In 2023, he returned to Microsoft Research to help drive advanced thinking in AI-based computing. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.
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