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Making a Mind · February 18 · 42 min

Developing Agent Learning Curriculums with Anirudh Chakravarthy

What if the key to building intelligent agents isn't just better models, but better teachers? Cognitive scientist Dr. Danielle Perszyk sits down with AI researcher Anirudh (Ani) Chakravarthy from Amazon's AGI Lab to explore how agents learn—not through memorization of data sets, but through structured experience. Drawing parallels to human development, Ani introduces a training approach where two AI agents work together: one explores the web to discover tasks at the frontier of its capabilities, while the other learns from these challenges—a new approach to self-play. Together, Ani and Danielle discuss how this process points to a form of embodied intelligence distinct from language models—and what it could mean for the future of human-AI collaboration.

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What if the key to building intelligent agents isn't just better models, but better teachers? Cognitive scientist Dr. Danielle Perszyk sits down with AI researcher Anirudh (Ani) Chakravarthy from Amazon's AGI Lab to explore how agents learn—not through memorization of data sets, but through structured experience.  

Drawing parallels to human development, Ani introduces a training approach where two AI agents work together: one explores the web to discover tasks at the frontier of its capabilities, while the other learns from these challenges—a new approach to self-play. Together, Ani and Danielle discuss how this process points to a form of embodied intelligence distinct from language models—and what it could mean for the future of human-AI collaboration.