- Verses AI (CBOE:VERS) tested its Genuis artificial intelligence (AI) suite with a variant of the Atari Challenge, a recognized AI benchmark
- Genuis came out ahead of top Deep Reinforcement Learning and Transformer algorithms using 90 per cent less data, 96 per cent faster training and a 96 per cent smaller model size
- Verses AI is a cognitive computing company building next-generation intelligent software systems modeled after the wisdom and genius of nature
- Verses AI stock has added over 300 per cent since December after outperforming an OpenAI model in a Mastermind code-breaking challenge
Verses AI (CBOE:VERS), a cognitive computing technology developer, tested its Genuis artificial intelligence (AI) suite with a variant of the Atari Challenge, a recognized AI benchmark where software agents are tasked with learning gameplay independently with minimal training.
Verses’ version uses only one tenth of the original challenge’s sample data, suggesting Genius has real-world applicability where, according to Wednesday’s news release, “data can be sparse, incomplete, noisy, and where learning may need to occur in real time.”
The results, detailed in a recent blog post, show that Genuis matched or exceeded the performance of top Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Transformer algorithms using 90 per cent less data, 96 per cent faster training and a 96 per cent smaller model size.
DRL is the algorithm working under the surface of Google Deepmind’s AlphaZero, AlphaGo and AlphaFold, while Transformers is foundational to Generative AI and large language models like OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama and X.AI’s Grok, among others.
Genius has proven its superiority across multiple Atari games – including different objects, dynamics and goals – by learning about game dynamics through interaction, without human supervision, enabling agents to predict outcomes and optimize their behavior.
Verses AI stock has added over 300 per cent since December after outperforming an OpenAI model in a Mastermind code-breaking challenge. The re-rating puts investors since inception in 2022 at approximately break even.
Leadership insights
“The Atari Challenge represents more than just machines playing games. Video games are a proxy for the complex dynamic systems all around us,” Gabriel René, founder and chief executive officer of Verses AI, said in a statement. “We need AI to help us to better navigate the complexity and uncertainty of the real-world; yet, state-of-the-art AI algorithms remain too unreliable, inefficient and unexplainable. While there is more work to be done to productize this research into Genius, we believe these early results and the research behind them signal a historical shift towards developing smarter, safer and more scalable AI.”
“By aligning with how intelligence has evolved in nature and how energy efficient biological systems must act to preserve their existence, we believe that the architecture and methods that underwrite Genius offer a sustainable and scalable means to building ecosystems of authentic, autonomous and agentic intelligence,“ commented Karl Friston, Verses AI’s chief scientist.
“By applying the Free Energy Principle, the Active Inference framework and Bayesian machine learning, we are working on developing an efficient and generalized architecture that allows intelligent agents to learn and develop expertise across any domain,“ added Hari Thiruvengada, Verses AI’s chief technology officer. “The reasoning, planning and online learning capabilities that allow a Genius Agent to engage in dynamic gameplay is extremely relevant to applications such as classification, recommendations, prediction and decision-making across a variety of industries, including financial, medical, risk analysis, autonomous driving, robotics and more.”
About Verses AI
Verses is a cognitive computing company building next-generation intelligent software systems modeled after the wisdom and genius of nature.
Verses AI stock (CBOE:VERS) last traded at C$1.75 per share.
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