Research

The science behind Apex

General intelligence does not require a transformer. We have shown it, from a formal theory of mind to a working substrate.

  1. October 2025

    Toward a Framework for Cooperative Hybrid Intelligence

    Wallace & Singh · Icarus Cybernetics

    A theory of cooperative hybrid intelligence grounded in the free energy principle and active inference, characterizing the cooperative optima between a human and an artificial agent.

  2. February 2026

    Constructs for a Hybrid Mind

    Wallace & Singh · Icarus Cybernetics

    A formal account of mind as agent, generative model, and conscious system, and an implementable specification for engineering hybrid minds on the path to human superintelligence.

  3. May 2026

    Early Evidence for Twelve Cognitive Capabilities in a Hebbian Substrate

    Wallace & Singh · Icarus Cybernetics

    Controlled evidence for twelve cognitive capabilities in one non-gradient substrate, including continual learning without catastrophic forgetting, episodic memory, and multimodal binding.

Focus areas

Continual and online learning

Stability and plasticity, lifelong adaptation, and forgetting-free consolidation.

Multimodal binding

Grounded representation and compositional generalization across modalities.

Energy-based cognition

The free energy principle and active inference as a foundation for mind.

Metacognition and calibration

Intrinsic reward, uncertainty estimation, and self-guided exploration.

Neuromorphic and edge inference

Sparse, local computation designed for on-device and neuromorphic hardware.

Hybrid intelligence

Human and machine coupling, and the architecture of human superintelligence.

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