Presentation: A Few Predicted Talks From QConAI 2030

Meryem Arik: I'm going to be doing something very risky today, and I'm going to be predicting the future. You should famously never, ever make predictions, especially about the future, because it always goes wrong. A very wise man said this. He actually was a baseball player in Boston. Luckily, I'm not a wise man. I'm Meryem. I'm the cofounder of Doubleword. I work on high throughput inference. The reason why I felt somewhat confident to make vague predictions is I actually have a fairly good track record of it. A couple months after ChatGPT came out, I did a TEDx talk called, AI's Looming Hardware Crisis, where I argued that inference would be very important and that we would not have enough GPUs to be able to serve all the inference that we needed. This was three years ago, and in that time, NVIDIA's stock price has gone up 10x. It turns out I was right. I was right once, I might not be right again. I'm going to give you a brief overview of the structure of this talk. I'm going to present my worldview, which I think is a fairly coherent worldview. I'm going to make a…