Gerard de Melo

AI@HPI Conference Host Prof. Gerald de Melo

#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:
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Gerard de Melo being filmed for a social media post

“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:
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YouTube video by Wim Pouw EnvisionBOX overview2025

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...

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

Post-Doc positions at HPI! Feel free to reach out to me / check out nlproc.org/join/ for further general info. #mlsky 🤖🧠

Special wards of Tokyo - Wikipedia

It's not that easy to compare. Tokyo Metropolis includes various remote islands, so the official density is lower than NYC's. If we consider just the 23 wards, the population density is higher than NYC's but none of the wards seem to have a population density as high as Manhattan's.

👋 from Germany

you got it boss

speaker showing a slide listing frequent uses of ChatGPT in Germany

OpenAI's Benedict Kerres at our @hpi.bsky.social Tech Leadership Conference:

ChatGPT used for relationship and health advice a lot in Germany

I wonder how they plan to deal with the problem of hallucination. For human authors, we generally assume certain norms of scientific responsibility. For AI-generated papers, I think we will need reproducibility and other mechanisms to validate claims.

Conference web page stating "The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers"

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

Original post text from https://x.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1935433846281093484

😮 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".

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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...

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 🤖🧠

This requires a community-wide solution. And such a solution was indeed developed in 2008 in the DB community: a proper hybrid journal-conference model with monthly deadlines. ARR copied many of the ideas, but still major differences.

www.vldb.org/pvldb/volume...

sigmodrecord.org/publications...

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!

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.

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

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

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I get to inbox zero all the time by turning actionable emails into to-do items that can then get sorted/prioritized along with other to-do items.

With this you can easily get to inbox zero, which feels great, though you will still need strategies to manage a growing to-do list :)

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.

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)

Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany:

www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...

Big news

7 years in the making

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Since the traditional 2nd tier ones still exist, I guess your point is that that they haven't grown at the same rate? Indeed, the majority of papers that don't make it at the top ones probably just remain on arXiv. Might be a good idea to have something like Findings for the rest of AI.

Pope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his papal name The new pope compares AI to the great industrial revolution.

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/...

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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...

Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity:

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See also blueskystarterpack.com/google?sort=...

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.

Huh, but that's a picture of the cookie monster? My slides for Tuesday happen to include ELMo (red) and BERT (yellow) :)