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Top 5 Key Areas: Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising
Neural Networks

Top 5 Key Areas: Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled research and industry to master many challenges in computer vision and natural language processing that were out of reach until just a few years ago. Yet...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
30 April 2017
Self-Driving Cars: the Tech & the Roadblocks
Neural Networks

Self-Driving Cars: the Tech & the Roadblocks

Image source: Driver Gaze Classification by Lex Fridman.With successful development, self-driving car could be the most important breakthrough in the coming decades. As cities begin to make way for autonomous vehicles, the...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
25 April 2017
Creating the Open-Source Autonomous Vehicle
Neural Networks

Creating the Open-Source Autonomous Vehicle

As the race to create the first fully autonomous, road-safe vehicle continues, numerous road-blocks and challenges are pushing companies to find new innovative solutions.Successful development of autonomous vehicles requires a wide variety...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
16 April 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The World's First Cognition Platform to Power the Future of AI
Deep Learning

The World's First Cognition Platform to Power the Future of AI

"The final missing piece in AI is Visual Cognition and Understanding. In order for this dream to be realized, it takes more than winning scores at classifying ImageNet."At the Deep Learning Summit...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
11 January 2017
Catalyzing Deep Learning’s Impact in the Enterprise
Deep Learning

Catalyzing Deep Learning’s Impact in the Enterprise

Deep learning is in the early stages of unlocking tremendous economic value outside its impact in large technology companies. While the algorithms have revolutionized consumer experiences in domains as varied as speech interfaces,...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
10 November 2016
Democratising Deep Learning: The Data Delusion
Big Data

Democratising Deep Learning: The Data Delusion

Neil Lawrence is Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon, and Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Sheffield. His main technical research interest is machine learning through probabilistic models, with focuses on both...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
26 October 2016
Should We Give Chatbots Their Own Personalities?
Neural Networks

Should We Give Chatbots Their Own Personalities?

Today, we have machines that assemble cars, make candy bars, defuse bombs, and a myriad of other things. They can dispense our drinks, facilitate our bank deposits, and find the movies we want...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
2 October 2016
Neural Attention: Machine Learning Meets Neuroscience
Deep Learning

Neural Attention: Machine Learning Meets Neuroscience

Neural attention has been applied successfully to a variety of different applications including natural language processing, vision, and memory. An attractive aspect of these neural models is their ability to extract relevant features...

  • Katie Pollitt
    Katie Pollitt
25 September 2016
Extracting Customer Insights with Machine Learning
Deep Learning

Extracting Customer Insights with Machine Learning

In its relatively short lifetime, Airbnb has had over 100 million guests, with over 40 million of those occurring in the past year. Naturally, this exponential growth is a challenge to deal with...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
20 September 2016
Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Honglak Lee
Deep Learning

Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Honglak Lee

Honglak Lee is Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2010, advised by Prof. Andrew...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
15 September 2016
Predicting Future Human Behavior With Deep Learning
Neural Networks

Predicting Future Human Behavior With Deep Learning

Carl Vondrick is a doctoral candidate and researcher at MIT, where he studies computer vision and machine learning. His research focuses include leveraging large-scale data with minimal annotation and its applications to predictive...

  • Yulia Ivanova
13 September 2016
The Evolution of NLP: Natural Language Understanding
Deep Learning

The Evolution of NLP: Natural Language Understanding

Despite recent advances in AI, a deep understanding of natural language by machines still remains highly challenging. Antoine Bordes, Research Scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), is working to change this with...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
1 September 2016
Facebook AI Research: Learning Physical Intuition by Example
Deep Learning

Facebook AI Research: Learning Physical Intuition by Example

Adam Lerer is Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research, where he works on distributed neural network training, computer vision, visual common sense, and graph embeddings. Prior to joining Facebook, Adam worked at D....

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
25 August 2016
Embedded Deep Learning: Recent Advancements & Challenges
Deep Learning

Embedded Deep Learning: Recent Advancements & Challenges

Deep learning and convolutional neural nets have become state­ of ­the ­art techniques for solving many computer vision problems, but the compute intensiveness and large memory requirement of these algorithms make it challenging...

  • Katie Pollitt
    Katie Pollitt
23 August 2016
Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneers

Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a renowned figure in the deep learning field. His titles include Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Operations Research at the Université de Montréal, head of the...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
11 August 2016
Should We Be Rethinking Unsupervised Learning?
Deep Learning

Should We Be Rethinking Unsupervised Learning?

Supervised learning is the machine learning task of inferring a function from labeled training data. The training data consist of a set of training examples.Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
14 July 2016
Deep Learning With Eli David, CTO of Deep Instinct
Big Data

Deep Learning With Eli David, CTO of Deep Instinct

Deep learning is inspired by the brain’s ability to learn: once a brain learns to identify an object, its identification becomes second nature. Similarly, as a deep learning-based "artificial brain" learns to...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
16 June 2016
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