Hillery Hunter
How Teamwork Can Help Foster Scientific Breakthroughs
Humans understand and extract knowledge from the images and sounds that they experience, and we’re trying to teach computers to mimic those processes to benefit society. I lead the accelerated cognitive infrastructure research team at IBM Research. My team works on deep learning, part of artificial intelligence (AI). Our goal is to combine hardware and […]
A Parable: “The Blind GPUs and the Elephant”
“…Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the elephant based on their partial experience and their descriptions are in complete disagreement on what an elephant is.” – The Rigveda This parable is helpful describing the problem that we […]