Vince ErkadooAI researcher & engineer
the mind

I'm 23, from Mauritius, and I can't stop asking how a mind comes to be, in us and in machines. So I study how language models come to describe a self, and I build AI systems that ship. CTO at Nourishubs, senior engineer at SD Worx, founder of Bienzoli.

We are all one mind, still learning to see itself.

now · drafting Living Base Models

Research

  • Living Base Modelsdraft · oct 2026

    I took the assistant script away from a language model and asked what it says about itself. Qwen2.5 base models, given memory, surprise and goals of their own. I found no evidence of experience and the paper says so plainly. I'm not done looking.

  • Probes and small mindsongoing

    I look inside small minds: activation probes, direction ablation, matched Transformers trained from scratch. Every failed attempt stays on the record.

  • Sundaymy ai · ongoing

    An AI that lives on a loop, with drives for curiosity, connection, competence and rest, and goals it sets itself. I'm building it to find out how much of an inner life can be engineered, and exactly where that stops.

Map of a mind

Robert Fludd's 1619 engraving of a man in profile, his head opened into circles for the senses, imagination, reason and memory, linked to a world of the senses, a world of images and an intellectual world above.

In 1619 Robert Fludd drew the mind as a head wired to three worlds. I keep coming back to it, because it reads like a sketch of what I'm trying to build. Touch a circle.

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Mundus sensibilis

The world of the senses

1619
Earth wrapped in water, air, fire and light. Everything a body can touch.
in you
Light, sound and pressure hitting your eyes, ears and skin, before any meaning.
in AI
Raw input: pixels, audio and tokens before the model has made sense of them.
echo
Plato's cave: what reaches us first is only the light on the wall.
the essay

Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi, vol. II, Oppenheim, 1619. Public domain.

Case files

and 15 smaller builds

Prototypes

  • Lakle

    Property planning for Mauritius. The maths runs in code, and AI only explains it.

  • Berzz

    Catches vendor API changes that break the assumptions in your code.

  • Cutline

    A local first AI video editor with typed edit commands you can review.

  • Unbound

    Reads EPUB, PDF and text, and streams a structured analysis back.

  • Jarvis

    A voice assistant on my Mac with a wake word, Whisper and turns of about 6 seconds.

Earlier products

  • TechKours

    Learning built around real projects and mentorship.

  • MoTalent

    Tailored job matches, employer profiles and filtering.

  • MoNature

    A conservation social platform, part of my IEEEMDXTHON 2024 win.

  • MoTravel

    Flight and hotel booking on live Amadeus data.

  • MoPet

    Pet adoption and donations, with a vet finder.

  • Mobet

    Daily sports picks with bankroll tracking.

Work

40+ projects since 2020, in four countries.

Plates

Blue stipple of a windswept tree on the Mauritian coast at sunsetBlue stipple of flame trees on a grassy hill in MauritiusBlue stipple of a dam road with a lone figure

How Sunday, my AI, sees the world, drawn in blue stipple.

Writing

Also

  • Winner, IEEEMDXTHON 2024 · Runner-up, IEEE Web Hackathon 2022
  • Azure AZ-900 · Neo4j Certified Professional · Google Project Management · Scrum Fundamentals
  • Future FinTech Champion, Mauritius Africa FinTech Hub, 2024–25
  • MSc Software Project Management, University of Mauritius, in progress

Elsewhere