Panel Discussion 1
Topic: Low Energy AI
Abstract: Over the past decades, the focus of AI research has been mostly on predictive accuracy of AI algorithms and systems resulting in remarkable achievements such as AlphaGo (beating the best human player in Go), GPT-3 (resulting in a text-generating system that is nearly indistinguishable from human writing in terms of fluency) or object detection systems that have super-human accuracy. However, these feats have come at the expense of an extraordinary amount of computing power and energy consumption of algorithms, surpassing by orders of magnitude the energy consumptions of (comparable) human intelligence. As AI algorithms start to enter all parts of society, it will be imperative that not only accuracy but also energy consumption of AI systems matches that of the human brain. In this panel, we will discuss what aspects of hardware, software and algorithm design we need to re-consider as well as promising approaches to achieve human-level accuracy on intelligent tasks with the same amount of energy consumed as the human brain.
Moderator
Ralf Herbrich
Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Panelists
Ajay Joshi
ARM, India
Christian Mayr
Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
Kishor Narang
Narnix Technolabs, India
Prateek Jain
Google Research, India
Sudeep Pasricha
Colorado State University, USA
Panel Discussion 2
Topic: Responsible AI
Abstract: Responsible AI systems are fair, interpretable, respectful of user privacy, and trustworthy. Fairness implies that systems don’t discriminate between different groups of users. Interpretability involves being able to provide explanations for model predictions. Respecting user privacy involves ensuring that model predictions don’t leak private data of individuals. And finally, trustworthy systems behave in expected ways and are robust to variations in data. In this panel, we will seek to demystify and define the four key aspects of Responsible AI systems – fairness, interpretability, respecting user privacy and trustworthiness – and explore best practices to achieve them.
Moderator
Rajeev Rastogi
Amazon, India
Panelists
Himabindu Lakkaraju
Harvard University, USA
Kush Varshney
IBM Research, USA
Manish Gupta
Google Research, India
Mayur Datar
Flipkart, India
Wolfgang Nejdl
Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany
