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Nikita Johnson

Nikita Johnson

CEO - Serious Fox •
252 posts •
Security & Privacy is Vital For Machine Learning to Succeed
Deep Learning

Security & Privacy is Vital For Machine Learning to Succeed

As popularity of machine learning grows, there is rising recognition that it exposes new security and privacy issues in software systems. While artificially intelligent algorithms are providing new opportunities in business and society,...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
4 April 2017
Online Banking is Evolving With NLP & Deep Learning
Machine Learning

Online Banking is Evolving With NLP & Deep Learning

The world of online banking is heading towards a digital reality where questions are no longer answered by humans, but by computers. In the last year alone the number of banks focusing on...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
2 April 2017
Using AI to Estimate Customer Life Time Value in E-Commerce
Machine Learning

Using AI to Estimate Customer Life Time Value in E-Commerce

As deep learning techniques and applications continue to spread across business and society, this technology is now making an impact on retail and advertising. Data mining and deep learning algorithms are applied to...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
30 March 2017
The Great Conundrum of Hyperparameter Optimization
Deep Learning

The Great Conundrum of Hyperparameter Optimization

Regularization is tuning or selecting the preferred level of model complexity so deep learning models are more successful in predictions.Techniques for regularization are applied to machine learning models to make the decision...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
28 March 2017
New Approaches to Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Neural Networks

New Approaches to Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

The cost of large scale data collection and annotation often makes the application of machine learning algorithms to new tasks or datasets prohibitively expensive. One approach circumventing this cost is training models on...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
26 March 2017
Women in STEM: Interview with Julie Choo
Smart Transport

Women in STEM: Interview with Julie Choo

I first met Julie Choo, a techpreneur and author, at the Deep Learning Summit in London. When I learnt of her interest and research in autonomous vehicles I invited her to participate at...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
23 March 2017
Beating the Perils of Non-Convexity in Neural Nets
Deep Learning

Beating the Perils of Non-Convexity in Neural Nets

Neural networks, or "neural nets", have become a common term in the tech world and discussions around artificial intelligence, since their use in machine learning has revolutionised performance across multiple domains like computer...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
20 March 2017
Building the Foundation of the Autonomous Vehicle
Big Data

Building the Foundation of the Autonomous Vehicle

While tech companies battle to be the first to create fully autonomous vehicles, there is a quiet evolution happening in the background that is building the foundation for these vehicles: data collection, with...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
17 March 2017
Improving Reinforcement Learning With Minecraft
Deep Learning

Improving Reinforcement Learning With Minecraft

Using games to train machine learning models has proven to be increasingly successful in recent years, and has helped to spread public understanding of algorithms and deep learning methods through mainstream media coverage,...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
13 March 2017
IWD 2017: Interview with Accenture's Manager of AI
Deep Learning

IWD 2017: Interview with Accenture's Manager of AI

International Women’s Day takes place annually on 8 March, providing companies, institutions and individuals with an opportunity to discuss and promote diversity and equality around the world.  The day is celebrated widely...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
8 March 2017
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles: Share Your Views
Machine Learning

The Future of Autonomous Vehicles: Share Your Views

We're working on an infographic and article for the Huffington Post about the trends and limitations of autonomous vehicles, and we'd love for our readers to be involved! Our aim is to gather...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
6 March 2017
Deep Learning Platforms & GPUs: an Interview With Bryan Catanzaro
Deep Learning

Deep Learning Platforms & GPUs: an Interview With Bryan Catanzaro

High-performance graphics cards, typically associated with gaming, have become popular over the last few years in an area many might not expect: artificial intelligence.  Many experts attribute recent acceleration of success in AI...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
3 March 2017
A New Era of Driverless Transport is Upon Us
Machine Learning

A New Era of Driverless Transport is Upon Us

Thanks to the collision of machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT), driverless technology is advancing rapidly, and advancements are expected to continue on this trajectory with technology giants like Google, Intel,...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
1 March 2017
Interpretability: the Next Deep Learning Challenge
Deep Learning

Interpretability: the Next Deep Learning Challenge

Deep learning researchers are increasingly focusing on a big problem in the field: interpretability.While supervised neural nets trained on huge datasets can achieve impressive performances in tasks such as computer vision and...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
27 February 2017
Exploring Machine Learning at OpenAI & Google With the Experts
Deep Learning

Exploring Machine Learning at OpenAI & Google With the Experts

On 26-27 January, we held the Deep Learning Summit and Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco, enjoying another mind-expanding 2 days learning about the latest trends and applications in the AI world. During...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
24 February 2017
Accelerating Tech: the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Machine Learning

Accelerating Tech: the Future of Autonomous Vehicles

The technologies driving forward a new era of autonomous vehicles have been accelerating exponentially in the past few years. The futuristic cars that until recently were only found in science fiction could be...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
20 February 2017
Deep Learning at the Front Lines of Healthcare
Deep Learning

Deep Learning at the Front Lines of Healthcare

Today’s healthcare system was not built for a seamless integration of rapidly emerging technologies, such as machine learning innovations. Health data is largely inaccessible and not standardized, making it challenging to work...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
17 February 2017
What is the General AI Challenge?
Deep Learning

What is the General AI Challenge?

Current AI solutions, deemed 'narrow AI', are essentially task-specific - they learn to do one, well-defined task extremely well. A 'general AI' system, on the other hand, will be capable of “learning how...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
15 February 2017
Applying Machine Learning & Sensing Technologies to Accelerate the Connected Car
Machine Learning

Applying Machine Learning & Sensing Technologies to Accelerate the Connected Car

"We as an industry have to figure out how to get gigabytes of data off our cars"Renovo, says the traditional concept of a vehicle platform faces potential radical change in an era...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
8 February 2017
Music Discovery at Pandora
Big Data

Music Discovery at Pandora

Finding the music of the moment can often be a challenging problem, even for humans with well-versed musical tastes. These challenges further explode into a myriad of complexities when attempting to construct algorithmic...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
2 February 2017
Chinese New Year Discount on RE•WORK Summits in Asia
Deep Learning

Chinese New Year Discount on RE•WORK Summits in Asia

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, we are providing a 20% discount on all summit passes. This offer will be valid from 25 January to 30 January. Simply enter the code NEWYEAR at...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
26 January 2017
The "Something Something" Video Dataset
Big Data

The "Something Something" Video Dataset

Neural networks trained on Datasets, like ImageNet, have recently led to major advances in visual object classification. The main obstacle that prevents networks from reasoning more deeply about scenes and situations, and from...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
25 January 2017
UREX: Under-appreciated Reward Exploration by Google Brain
Deep Learning

UREX: Under-appreciated Reward Exploration by Google Brain

The most widely-used exploration methods in reinforcement learning today (like entropy regularization and epsilon-greedy) have not changed much in the last 20 years. Google Brain argues that these exploration strategies are naive and...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
21 January 2017
The Future of In-Place Associative Computing
Big Data

The Future of In-Place Associative Computing

Today’s solutions that seek to emulate the human mind waste time and energy moving data around. That is not what the human mind does – rather than move data around, it efficiently processes...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
18 January 2017
Inspiring Women in Machine Intelligence
Machine Learning

Inspiring Women in Machine Intelligence

Join us for an evening of discussions and networking around the progress and application of machine intelligence at the annual Women in Machine Intelligence Dinner in London on 21 February with expert speakers...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
16 January 2017
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