Can robots learn how to learn?
- Wits Communications
Professor Benjamin Rosman on The AI Lyceum, offering insights on curiosity-driven learning among others.
Rosman, Director of the Wits Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute and a TIME100 AI 2025 honouree, joins Samraj Matharu on The AI Lyceum to explore how machines learn, adapt and interact with the world. The conversation covers curiosity-driven learning, robotics and systems that learn how to learn, alongside the importance of context in understanding intelligence. They also discuss aligning intelligent agents with human values, opportunities for AI research in Africa and advice for the next generation of researchers. The episode offers an accessible introduction to questions at the heart of AI for students, researchers and anyone curious about its future.
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