Debate

Topic: Should everyone work on machine learning/AI?

AI has made incredible strides of late, thanks to foundational advances in both ML algorithms and hardware. As AI continues to revolutionize more of our lives, should everyone in the ASPLOS community switch to working on topics in AI? Why should we look at other problems when we could help AI improve so it can solve them instead?

SpeakersTeam
Amir Yazdanbaksh (Google DeepMind), Vijay Janapa Reddi (Harvard) and Charith Mendis (UIUC)Yes
Tamar Eilam (IBM), Moin Qureshi (Georgia Tech) and Josep Torrellas (UIUC)No