The cosmologist-potter using AI to fight superbugs
Distinguished Professor Bruce Bassett’s cosmic journey to Wits to join the “leading AI research group in the country”.
Where we MIND humans as much as code
In a world dictated by data, scale and speed, the Wits MIND Institute prioritises the human being.
New cross-continental AI partnership
Wits, UCT, partner with the CISPA Helmholtz-Center for Information Security to drive research into cybersecurity and trustworthy AI.
Disruption as a catalyst for reinvention
[Editorial] For a leading African university like Wits, disruption has become not just an inevitability, but a force for reinvention.
SA must refine its own AI future and secure algorithmic sovereignty
The country stands at a crossroads. It is essential that we and other African countries build the capacity to refine our own data.
Google.org backs the Wits MIND Institute with US$1M boost
The Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute has been awarded core funding of US$1 million by Google.org.
MIND Director named coveted CIFAR Fellow
Professor Benjamin Rosman has been appointed a Fellow of the prestigious CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains programme.
Bots with brains: Wits robotics goes underground
Wits’ RAIL Lab trains intelligent machines to navigate caves, pour milk, and plan like humans, pushing the frontiers of autonomous AI research.