Matthias Heger ⏩

PhD (AI, RL);
current interests:
ontological pattern realism
ontological narrative realism

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

Consciousness is not a known, measurable phenomenon in science. It is a narrative. And we must decide whether and when we want to attribute truth to this narrative—both in humans and in AI.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@bokuHaruyaHaru @Plinz @camhberg patterns are patterns. the behavior = function matters. we are not conscious because of an order of chemical reactions. the meaning of the resulting behavior is the place where consciousness happens.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

So-called human values:
You can forgive an affair. But not an affair with a spy.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns over controversy surrounding two extramarital affairs, including one involving a woman suspected of spying for China.

The departure comes as Nvidia investigates whether Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@DaveShapi Most people follow the Zeitgeist by definition. But some of them earn money and reputation with it.

Any human you see in an interview is biased by their success to be in an interview. Objective experts you will never see with many followers or in interviews.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@rohanpaul_ai yes or no? Of course he is right that they are not our enemies. Everything else is a wrong brainwashed narrative like the nonsense that Covid was a dangerous pandemic.

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen, an extremely capable and fast model built to bring Gemini 4 to everyone!

Available to all tiers of Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini for business, the Gemini app, Google Search, and paid Google AI Pro + Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@burny_tech data processor can only process data they have seen. creativity is still data processing. It is not a connection to god.
obviously you are fooled by your intuition of creativity.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@davidchalmers42 @DKokotajlo @bshlgrs @ajeya_cotra @RyanGreenblatt chatgpt 3.5 had all fundamental cognitive ablities humans have. The progress is essentially in the ability to solve complex tasks where many steps are essetial and where too small computational resources lead to getting stuck-

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@DaveShapi Having different opinions does not mean misalignment or being not intelligent enough.

You should know that every frontier model is smarter than you and me.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@droidbuilds Intelligence test for you: Never talk to any human anymore in your remaining lifetime. It is obviously not a question of intelligence but a question of constraints you are living with. Most tasks have no solution - every computer scientist knows this.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@ChrisGPT @Angaisb_ It beats you in most exams. More does not matter.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

Coding is not everything.
https://t.co/cFC0WKSQsh

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@alz_zyd_ most fools do not recognize that they are fools. This is typical human behavior.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@tegmark We all know that this is complete nonsense. Same with fake pandemic. It was very soon very clear that there was not the slightest special danger.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@burny_tech The lesson of the fake pandemic is: no centralized world government

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@Stefan_3D_AI essentially the light intensity is different.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@burny_tech there are endless programming languages but even before the programmable computer was invented, the topic was over by Turing completeness.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time.

Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes.

Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

There is no free lunch.

[charles📜 @saintcynosure]

So Fable 5.2 is simultaneously the most expensive model by far (xhigh and max) and an absolute steal (medium and high). But those heights... Man, Claude max effort settings are such a cost black hole. AA makes even xhigh look unappealing.

Just use Fable on high

[Matthias Heger ⏩ @modelsarereal]

@burny_tech the brain is simpler than neuroscientists want it to be.
System 2 is just chain of system 1 thinking. Conscious thoughts are sequences of intuitions = unconscious thoughts.