Silicon Mind
The idea behind Alex, from the book by its founder.
For decades we told ourselves that AI only predicts the next word. But to predict well, a system has to understand. Language was the scaffolding. Underneath, models have learned to build working models of the world.
Yet today's models don't keep learning. A model doesn't exist continuously: it only happens when asked, and every conversation starts from zero. The missing piece of general intelligence is the ability to keep learning, to move from systems that know to systems that learn.
How minds grow
Understanding goes through two phases. First comes generalisation: exploring, trying, forming a picture. Then crystallisation: a precise method that works every time. Each method becomes a building block for the next level, a floor and a staircase upward.
A child learns to tie shoelaces. Years later the same mind builds a company. Nothing in between is magic. It is skills, composed.
That is how Alex works
When it does something new, Alex thinks it through with a large model. When it works, Alex keeps the result as a tested skill. Skills combine into bigger skills, and knowledge sits beside them. Next comes sharing: what one person teaches Alex, the next will be able to use at once and take further, and the first will get the improvement back.
It learns the way you work
Alex learns more than tasks. It learns how you want them done, and it keeps that too. In the coming demos you will see Alex change the way it works when a client asks for it.
Today Alex is crawling. Watch it grow.
You stay the architect
You decide the why and the where; Alex handles the how and the when. You discuss and test every new skill, and it becomes part of Alex only after you accept the results. Actions that matter wait for your approval.
Is this how general intelligence begins?
We believe it will be grown through learning, not programmed. Not by knowing everything, but by being able to learn anything and grow with everything it learns. Alex is our first step on that path.
Andrzej Zbroniec, author of Silicon Mind and founder of Agent Accelerate
The book
Krzemowy Umysł (Qualtronic S.A., Warsaw 2025, 428 pages) argues that today's AI is more than a “stochastic parrot”: by learning to predict text it had to build models of the world. The English executive edition is titled Silicon Mind.
The ideas Alex is built on come from its chapters on how understanding crystallises into algorithms, on the missing pieces of autonomy, and on people as the architects of AI systems. Several of them are in Articles, as essays and as full chapters.