AGI Chips - The Next Frontier · FEEC/UNICAMP IA382

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Seminars-2-2024 - This article is part of a series.

Part 1: The Dawn of an Immersive Internet: XR, Generative AI and the Road to 6G

Part 2: This Article

Part 3: Generalist vs Specialist Language Models

Part 4: From Intelligent Surfaces to Noise-Driven Communication: Innovative Technologies for 6G and Beyond

Part 5: An Overview of Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization

Part 6: Packet Trimming at the Edge for Low Latency in 6G Environments

Part 7: Scientific Machine Learning and Quantum Utility: A Near Future Perspective

Part 8: Cloud Storage Systems: Latency Characterization and Extensions

Part 9: Let the Plants do the Talking: Climate-Smart Agriculture by the Messages Received from Plants and Soil

Part 10: More is different: How the Science of Complex Systems can inspire Future Autonomous Networks

Abstract #

General intelligence is a branch of AI research that aims to create machines capable of understanding and learning any intellectual task that a human can. The goal of developing AGI chips is to support the advancement of artificial general intelligence, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the field of AI. In this lecture, the vision, hardware technology, and philosophy of AGI chip development are covered. The roadmap for AGI development, along with the ethical and design challenges for AGI chip development, will be presented. The limitations of weak AI, and the practical challenges that come with increased on-chip and on-board system design, along with alogrithmic, and systems thinking approaches, will be discussed.

Bio of Alex James #

Alex James is the Dean External Linkages and Projects, and Full-professor of AI hardware at Digital University Kerala; and CTO of India Graphene and Engineering Innovation Centre (a section 8 company). James received his PhD from Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Australia. He heads the Maker Village, one of the largest electronic hardware incubators in India with over 80 electronics startups. He heads the Centre for excellence in Intelligent IoT Sensors, and India Innovation Centre for Graphene. He is the founding director board member of India’s first Digital Science Park. He has spun out multiple startup companies from his research group; published more than 200 papers. For the last two decades, he worked in the areas of board design, signal integrity and mixed signal design in Industry and in the area of AI hardware and systems in academia. He has taught more than 60 courses, in the areas of chip design and AI. He was an associate editor for IEEE TCAS1 (2018-2023), and IEEE OJCAS (2023). He got the IEEE Kerala Section Best Researcher Award (2022), IEEE CASS Best Associate Editor for IEEE TCAS1 (2020-2021), Kerala State Higher Education Council Award 2022 - Kairali Gaveshana Puraskaram from the Kerala government, and 2024 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award. First chair of IEEE CASS Kerala, which won the 2023 IEEE Circuits and Systems Regional Chapter-of-the-Year Award: Region 10 and 2024 IEEE Circuits and Systems Global Chapter-of-the-Year Award. He is a member of SIG AgriFood and IEEE CASS Technical Committees on Neural Systems and Applications (NSA TC), Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee (NCAS TC), Cellular Nanoscale Networks, and Memristor Array Computing (CNNMAC TC). He is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2024-2025) and Associate Editor of IEEE Access, Frontiers in Neuroscience, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence. He is an IET, BCS, and HEA Senior Fellow.