VERSES Publishes New Research Proposing Future Path for AI
December 14 2022 - 7:00AM
VERSES Technologies Inc. (NEO:VERS) (OTCQX:VRSSF) ("VERSES'' or the
"Company”), a cognitive computing company specializing in the next
generation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, announces that,
on Monday, December 5th, its AI Research Group, a team of fifteen
of the world’s leading Computational Neuroscientists and AI
Ph.D.’s, in association with Universities across Canada, UK,
Germany, Australia, The Netherlands, and the USA, published a
landmark research “white” paper describing their novel approach to
the design and development of the next generation of AI known as
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) intelligent agents with
human-level intelligence that can learn, adapt and act in the
world. The paper, entitled “Designing Ecosystems of Intelligence
from First Principles,” presents a vision and roadmap for AI based
on a field of research called Active Inference. KOSM, the network
operating system from VERSES, uses the Active Inference framework
as the foundation for its AI decision-making and planning
capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence has broad applications spanning
industrial automation, shopping recommendations, computer vision,
voice assistants, self-driving vehicles, generative art, customer
service, and more. The global AI market is projected to grow to USD
$1.394 trillion by the end of the decade. Despite its successful
applications, AI has fundamental challenges impeding the ultimate
aspiration of human (or super-human) level generalized machine
intelligence. Conventional AI works by recognizing patterns within
large data sets that can cost millions of dollars to train and
deploy. Moreover, today’s AI models are custom-built for narrow
problem sets, for example, a model designed to alleviate traffic
congestion can’t be applied to help identify medical issues in
x-rays.
VERSES Chief Scientist, Dr. Karl Friston, pioneered a different
approach modeled on the way that humans – and things in nature more
generally – understand the world and learn patterns. This approach,
called Active Inference, describes how biological intelligence
observes the world, orients, and makes decisions about how to act
based on sensory observations or data, all in real time in contrast
to today’s AI known as Deep Learning which heavily relies upon
massive historical data sets. Active Inference acknowledges that
the world is a messy place and that fundamental to great
decision-making is reducing uncertainty in order to achieve
expected outcomes. “Active Inference is a universal scheme for
intelligent behavior. Operationally, Active Inference is a process
of belief updating and propagation that has two aspects: inferring
states of affairs in the world that generate data and inferring the
best plans for actively acquiring more data,” said Friston.
VERSES CEO, Gabriel René, comments, “We are moving from the
Information Age to the Intelligence Age, and this groundbreaking
paper – the culmination of decades of advanced scientific research
and development – describes, for the first time, a genuine path to
achieving the ‘holy grail’ AGI not as a single algorithm but as an
ecosystem of collective intelligence. This powerful science is the
foundation of our KOSM platform.” Using Active Inference, KOSM
enables the design and deployment of a new generation of
intelligent agents capable of working together to provide
unprecedented insights, recommendations, and autonomous
capabilities to enhance any application across any industry. René
continues, “VERSES mission is to enable a smarter world where the
power to design and deploy AI is extended beyond those with big
data to anyone with big ideas.”VERSES Research Lab collaborated
with the following universities on the white paper:
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College
London, London, UK,
- Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia Sussex AI Group
- Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton,
UK
- Department of Computer Science, Université du Québec à
Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada Department of Experimental
Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute of
Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany Department of Biology,
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour,
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA
- Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford,
UK
- Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook,
New York, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University,
Stony Brook, New York, USA Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA Topos Institute,
Berkeley, California, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of
Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal,
Montréal, Québec, Canada
The contextualized data structure and messaging that KOSM
employs are based on open specifications developed by the Spatial
Web Foundation and being standardized within the IEEE Standards
Association. The Designing Ecosystems of Intelligence from First
Principles white paper is publicly available at arxiv.org.
Additionally, VERSES announces that it has granted an aggregate
of 400,000 stock options to certain consultants pursuant to the
Company's stock option plan. All of the stock options will be
exercisable to purchase one Class A Share at a price of $0.75 for a
period of 1 year from the date of grant. The options will vest
immediately upon the date of grant.
About VERSESVERSES is a cognitive computing
company specializing in next-generation Artificial Intelligence.
Modeled after natural systems and the design principles of the
human brain and the human experience, VERSES flagship offering,
KOSM™, is a network operating system for generating distributed
intelligence. Built on open standards, KOSM transforms disparate
data into a universal context that fosters trustworthy
collaboration between humans, machines, and AI, across digital and
physical systems. Imagine a smarter world that elevates human
potential through innovations inspired by nature. Learn more at
VERSES, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
On Behalf of VERSES Gabriel RenéVERSES
Technologies Inc.Co-Founder & CEOpress@verses.ioMedia
and Investor Relations Inquiries Leo KarabelasFocus
CommunicationsPresidentinfo@fcir.ca416-543-3120.
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