I just built the first fully operational recurrent brain of an ape you can run locally, open up, experiment on and watch process information in real time.
Inside the the ape's brain:
→ 144 interconnected recurrent units
→ Persistent internal state & memory
→ Attention and fixation mechanisms
→ Valuation & decision-making
→ Threat / caution responses
→ Action selection
→ Live neural activation visualizer
→ Memory inspection
→ Deterministic brain-state replay
→ Pause, step through & inspect its thoughts
→ Remove memory, recurrence or threat response and observe how behavior changes
→ Feed it sequential environments and watch the same brain adapt its behavior over time
→ Fully inspectable source - no hidden model or API
Markets are simply the first environment we've plugged into it. ApeBrain observes a stream of information, forms internal state, remembers previous signals, focuses its attention and eventually acts.
The interesting part isn't what it trades.
It's that you can watch the entire decision process happen from the inside.
Fork the brain. Break it. Change its environment. Give it new senses. See what happens.
Everything is open source.