Gerard de Melo
@gdemelo.bsky.social
Professor for AI at Hasso Plattner Institute and University of Potsdam
Berlin (prev. Rutgers NJ USA, Tsinghua Beijing, Berkeley)
http://gerard.demelo.org
Berlin (prev. Rutgers NJ USA, Tsinghua Beijing, Berkeley)
http://gerard.demelo.org
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Gerard de Melo
@gdemelo.bsky.social
· Dec 15
LLMs "hallucinate" by making up information instead of revealing their lack of knowledge 🤔
Our #NeurIPS2024 paper adds an [I-Don't-Know] 🤷🏾♂️ token to the LLM and fine-tunes it to predict this instead of hallucinating.
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Our #NeurIPS2024 paper adds an [I-Don't-Know] 🤷🏾♂️ token to the LLM and fine-tunes it to predict this instead of hallucinating.
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Yann Lecun (@yann-lecun.bsky.social) has done a lot for the AI community during his years at Meta/Facebook.
Let's hope that those efforts continue despite the departures of people like Yann and Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala.bsky.social).
Let's hope that those efforts continue despite the departures of people like Yann and Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala.bsky.social).
Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at Meta, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, which will focus on continuing his work on world models.
Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup | TechCrunch
Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at Meta, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, which will focus on continuing his work on world models.
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yann Lecun (@yann-lecun.bsky.social) has done a lot for the AI community during his years at Meta/Facebook.
Let's hope that those efforts continue despite the departures of people like Yann and Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala.bsky.social).
Let's hope that those efforts continue despite the departures of people like Yann and Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala.bsky.social).
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#AI@HPI Conference 2025 📌
Vom 2.–4. Dezember diskutieren Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft & Wissenschaft zusammen Strategien, um Europas Position im globalen KI-Wettbewerb zu stärken.
Lest im Interview mit Gastgeber Prof. Gerald de Melo wie Forschung die #KI-Souveränität stärkt:
hpi.de/artikel/wir-...
Vom 2.–4. Dezember diskutieren Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft & Wissenschaft zusammen Strategien, um Europas Position im globalen KI-Wettbewerb zu stärken.
Lest im Interview mit Gastgeber Prof. Gerald de Melo wie Forschung die #KI-Souveränität stärkt:
hpi.de/artikel/wir-...
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#AI@HPI Conference 2025 📌
Vom 2.–4. Dezember diskutieren Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft & Wissenschaft zusammen Strategien, um Europas Position im globalen KI-Wettbewerb zu stärken.
Lest im Interview mit Gastgeber Prof. Gerald de Melo wie Forschung die #KI-Souveränität stärkt:
hpi.de/artikel/wir-...
Vom 2.–4. Dezember diskutieren Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft & Wissenschaft zusammen Strategien, um Europas Position im globalen KI-Wettbewerb zu stärken.
Lest im Interview mit Gastgeber Prof. Gerald de Melo wie Forschung die #KI-Souveränität stärkt:
hpi.de/artikel/wir-...
“When it comes to AI, European companies rarely play in the top league” – My perspective on why we need AI sovereignty. 👉🏽 hpi.de/en/article/w...
🚨Join us at the AI @ HPI Conference 2025 this December:
hpi.de/en/ai-hpi-co...
🚨Join us at the AI @ HPI Conference 2025 this December:
hpi.de/en/ai-hpi-co...
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“When it comes to AI, European companies rarely play in the top league” – My perspective on why we need AI sovereignty. 👉🏽 hpi.de/en/article/w...
🚨Join us at the AI @ HPI Conference 2025 this December:
hpi.de/en/ai-hpi-co...
🚨Join us at the AI @ HPI Conference 2025 this December:
hpi.de/en/ai-hpi-co...
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www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor...
@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social
Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...
@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social
Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...
EnvisionBOX overview2025
YouTube video by Wim Pouw
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor...
@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social
Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...
@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social
Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...
Remembering Pushpak Bhattacharyya, known as Godfather of Indian NLP, former President of ACL + Director of IIT Patna.
Despite his countless achievements, he remained humble and kind. He was one of the first people I met at an academic conference.
May he rest in peace. www.cse.iitb.ac.in/memorial
Despite his countless achievements, he remained humble and kind. He was one of the first people I met at an academic conference.
May he rest in peace. www.cse.iitb.ac.in/memorial
October 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Remembering Pushpak Bhattacharyya, known as Godfather of Indian NLP, former President of ACL + Director of IIT Patna.
Despite his countless achievements, he remained humble and kind. He was one of the first people I met at an academic conference.
May he rest in peace. www.cse.iitb.ac.in/memorial
Despite his countless achievements, he remained humble and kind. He was one of the first people I met at an academic conference.
May he rest in peace. www.cse.iitb.ac.in/memorial
Post-Doc positions at HPI! Feel free to reach out to me / check out nlproc.org/join/ for further general info. #mlsky 🤖🧠
🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher for Data Science/AI at @hpi.bsky.social
📍Potsdam 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Sep 15th
🔗 ellis.eu/jobs/postdoc...
📍Potsdam 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Sep 15th
🔗 ellis.eu/jobs/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Researcher for Data Science/AI at Hasso-Plattner Institute
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
ellis.eu
August 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Post-Doc positions at HPI! Feel free to reach out to me / check out nlproc.org/join/ for further general info. #mlsky 🤖🧠
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OpenAI's Benedict Kerres at our @hpi.bsky.social Tech Leadership Conference:
ChatGPT used for relationship and health advice a lot in Germany
ChatGPT used for relationship and health advice a lot in Germany
July 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
OpenAI's Benedict Kerres at our @hpi.bsky.social Tech Leadership Conference:
ChatGPT used for relationship and health advice a lot in Germany
ChatGPT used for relationship and health advice a lot in Germany
Papers *written* and *reviewed* by AI 🤖
The Stanford Agents4Science conference is seeking research papers mainly authored by AI, which will then be peer-reviewed by multiple AI systems.
Might seem odd to us now, but this might become common practice in the future.
agents4science.stanford.edu
The Stanford Agents4Science conference is seeking research papers mainly authored by AI, which will then be peer-reviewed by multiple AI systems.
Might seem odd to us now, but this might become common practice in the future.
agents4science.stanford.edu
July 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Papers *written* and *reviewed* by AI 🤖
The Stanford Agents4Science conference is seeking research papers mainly authored by AI, which will then be peer-reviewed by multiple AI systems.
Might seem odd to us now, but this might become common practice in the future.
agents4science.stanford.edu
The Stanford Agents4Science conference is seeking research papers mainly authored by AI, which will then be peer-reviewed by multiple AI systems.
Might seem odd to us now, but this might become common practice in the future.
agents4science.stanford.edu
😮 Recent OpenAI / former DeepMind researcher talking about "mass migration as being worse for Europe than WW2 was" and extremist phantasies such as "large-scale remigration".
x.com/RichardMCNgo...
x.com/RichardMCNgo...
June 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
😮 Recent OpenAI / former DeepMind researcher talking about "mass migration as being worse for Europe than WW2 was" and extremist phantasies such as "large-scale remigration".
x.com/RichardMCNgo...
x.com/RichardMCNgo...
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In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert:
vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
Sentence processing workshop, May 27, 2025
vasishth.github.io
May 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert:
vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
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The University of Potsdam invites applications for 5 postdoc positions, incl. Cognitive Sciences, incl. NLP (esp. cognitive).
These are fairly independent research positions that will allow the candidate to build their own profile. Dln June 2nd.
Details: tinyurl.com/pd-potsdam-2...
#NLProc #AI 🤖🧠
These are fairly independent research positions that will allow the candidate to build their own profile. Dln June 2nd.
Details: tinyurl.com/pd-potsdam-2...
#NLProc #AI 🤖🧠
tinyurl.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The University of Potsdam invites applications for 5 postdoc positions, incl. Cognitive Sciences, incl. NLP (esp. cognitive).
These are fairly independent research positions that will allow the candidate to build their own profile. Dln June 2nd.
Details: tinyurl.com/pd-potsdam-2...
#NLProc #AI 🤖🧠
These are fairly independent research positions that will allow the candidate to build their own profile. Dln June 2nd.
Details: tinyurl.com/pd-potsdam-2...
#NLProc #AI 🤖🧠
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What is transformative about LLMs:
Plurality (majority?) of students are no longer reading or writing papers
Soon the majority of all known writing will be synthetic
Videos of people now indistinguishable from the real thing
Net new types of fraud with no known counter
etc
Take it seriously!
Plurality (majority?) of students are no longer reading or writing papers
Soon the majority of all known writing will be synthetic
Videos of people now indistinguishable from the real thing
Net new types of fraud with no known counter
etc
Take it seriously!
May 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
What is transformative about LLMs:
Plurality (majority?) of students are no longer reading or writing papers
Soon the majority of all known writing will be synthetic
Videos of people now indistinguishable from the real thing
Net new types of fraud with no known counter
etc
Take it seriously!
Plurality (majority?) of students are no longer reading or writing papers
Soon the majority of all known writing will be synthetic
Videos of people now indistinguishable from the real thing
Net new types of fraud with no known counter
etc
Take it seriously!
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VEO3
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
May 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
VEO3
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
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Super excited Marin is finally out! Come see what we've been building! Code/platform for training fully reproducible models end-to-end, from data to evals. Plus a new high quality 8B base model. Percy did a good job explaining it on the other place. marin.community
x.com/percyliang/s...
x.com/percyliang/s...
Percy Liang on X: "What would truly open-source AI look like? Not just open weights, open code/data, but *open development*, where the entire research and development process is public *and* anyone can contribute. We built Marin, an open lab, to fulfill this vision: https://t.co/racsvmhyA3" / X
What would truly open-source AI look like? Not just open weights, open code/data, but *open development*, where the entire research and development process is public *and* anyone can contribute. We built Marin, an open lab, to fulfill this vision: https://t.co/racsvmhyA3
x.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Super excited Marin is finally out! Come see what we've been building! Code/platform for training fully reproducible models end-to-end, from data to evals. Plus a new high quality 8B base model. Percy did a good job explaining it on the other place. marin.community
x.com/percyliang/s...
x.com/percyliang/s...
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Wish I had a single @overleaf.com keyboard shortcut that would 1) append whatever I have in my clipboard to my bib file, 2) parse it, 3) extract the bibkey, and 4) paste it at my current cursor location in the editor.
May 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Wish I had a single @overleaf.com keyboard shortcut that would 1) append whatever I have in my clipboard to my bib file, 2) parse it, 3) extract the bibkey, and 4) paste it at my current cursor location in the editor.
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Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)
May 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)
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Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany:
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
Temporary positions for academic staff
Temporary positions for academic staff at the University of Potsdam
www.uni-potsdam.de
May 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany:
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
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The Pope chose his name because he’s concerned about the effects of AI on human dignity, justice, and labor.
www.theverge.com/news/664719/...
www.theverge.com/news/664719/...
Pope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his papal name
The new pope compares AI to the great industrial revolution.
www.theverge.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Pope chose his name because he’s concerned about the effects of AI on human dignity, justice, and labor.
www.theverge.com/news/664719/...
www.theverge.com/news/664719/...
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Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity:
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
erc.europa.eu
May 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity:
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Come & work with me @hpi.bsky.social & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk
I am looking for 3 post docs on the governance of emergent tech.
CS: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Application deadline is 15.06.2025.
I am looking for 3 post docs on the governance of emergent tech.
CS: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Application deadline is 15.06.2025.
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
tinyurl.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Come & work with me @hpi.bsky.social & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk
I am looking for 3 post docs on the governance of emergent tech.
CS: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Application deadline is 15.06.2025.
I am looking for 3 post docs on the governance of emergent tech.
CS: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Application deadline is 15.06.2025.
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Microsoft is spending about 6x the annual budget of the entire NSF on building more server farms.
Microsoft's Q3 capex rose 52.9% YoY to $21.4B, vs. $22.4B est.; Microsoft reiterated this month that it would spend $80B on its data center build-out this year (Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
April 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Microsoft is spending about 6x the annual budget of the entire NSF on building more server farms.