Apr 22
Marquee Arts (fka Michigan Theater) Ann Arbor, MI
TicketsDr. Mosharaf Chowdhury
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Love Me— AI and climate change
Program Description
What are the implications of AI on climate change? Is it accelerating the effects of global warming? And is it possible that AI will outlive us long after our extinction?
Film Synopsis
Long after humanity’s extinction, a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love.
This wildly imaginative debut feature tells the love story of a smart buoy and an orbiting satellite that spans a billion years and probes the mysteries of being and consciousness using legit storytelling dexterity. Love Me's whimsically philosophical, shape-shifting structure ingeniously weaves together the real, the virtual, and the surreal. Its star-crossed, web-paired metallic protagonists — inhabited in different forms by Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun — awkwardly navigate romance and companionship, equipped only with untold petabytes of archived web data, social media, and online videos. Awash in these mediated experiences and fabricated expressions of love and identity, they yearn to understand who they are, whether their feelings are real, and for that matter, whether they are real. — Sundance Film Festival
About the Speaker
Mosharaf Chowdhury is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he leads the SymbioticLab. His current research focuses on improving the efficiency of AI/ML workloads, specifically optimizing their energy consumption through the ML Energy Initiative. Major open-source projects from his team include Infiniswap, the first scalable memory disaggregation solution; FedScale, a planetary-scale AI/ML platform; TPP, the tiered memory manager in the Linux kernel v5.18 onward; and Zeus, the first energy-optimal Generative AI stack. In the past, Mosharaf invented coflows and was one of the original creators of Apache Spark. He has received numerous individual awards, fellowships, and paper awards from NSDI, OSDI, ATC, and MICRO.