Gerard de Melo

@gdemelo.bsky.social

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Professor for AI at Hasso Plattner Institute and University of Potsdam Berlin (prev. Rutgers NJ USA, Tsinghua Beijing, Berkeley) http://gerard.demelo.org

Kelly Davis presenting a talk titled "Gödel's Poetry – Recursively Decomposing LLM Based Prover"
Proofs by OpenAI, screenshot from https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
An industrial step feeder mechanism, intended to ensure the right orientation of nuts, in which nuts with the wrong orientation simply keep getting sent back to the bottom.
panelists on stage at Google AI Center Berlin opening event
panelists on stage
Stephen Casper (MIT) on stage speaking
Geoffrey Hinton speaking
Anthony Aguirre on stage at UNESCO
Gillian Hadfield on stage with Yoshua Bengio and Susan Leavy
User interface showing dynamic highlighting of text as the user navigates through it
University campus near Lake Griebnitzsee
2 reviewers raised their scores but “We will be reverting reviews and scores to their state before the discussion period.”
Gerard de Melo hosting AI@HPI Conference
Signed Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty (18 November 2025)
Gerard de Melo being filmed for a social media post
speaker showing a slide listing frequent uses of ChatGPT in Germany
Conference web page stating "The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers"
Original post text from https://x.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1935433846281093484
Cookie monster eating cookies.
Illustration of training LLMs to say I don't know: Whenever they make a mistake, encourage them to shift probability mass not just to the correct token but also to a special I-Don't-Know token.
QR code for @gdemelo.bsky.social
Tweet from Grok expressing information about the top misinformation spreader on X
Superintelligence Strategy consisting of 3 pillars: Deterrence, Nonproliferation, Competitiveness
Clara Kaluderovic and David Petraeus
panel discussion
panel discussion
panel discussion
Erik Brynjolfsson on stage presenting slide with a proposed research agenda for the economics of Transformative AI
Kate Crawford speaking at conference showing slide with alternative name
Thomas Dietterich sitting with other panelists presenting a slide
Yoshua Bengio presenting slide
Anca Dragan presenting a slide on mutual contributions of "Addressing present day harms" and "Ensuring AGI safety"
slide showing "International Association for AI Informed by Human Values with Prioritization of the Value of Safety in Particular" (IAAIHVPVSP)
Stuart Russell on stage in front of a huge panel with the conference name
Rumman Chowdhury presenting
Comic of dog sitting in a burning house with caption "AI/ML folks still on X" and "This is fine"
Gerard de Melo with Steven Pinker outdoors at night
panel discussion
panel consisting of Jessica Montgomery, Vilas Dhar, Godliver Owomugisha, Neil Lawrence, Andrzej Szeptycki
SAP CEO Christian Klein with Ina Fried
Juan Lavista Ferres, Arsalan Tavakoli, Thomas Wolf
John Werner with Joseph Ucuzoglu, Steve Pagliuca, Demis Hassabis, Daniela Rus
panel discussion involving Max Tegmark, Demis Hassabis, Yoshua Bengio, Dawn Song, Ya-Qin Zhang
Andrew Ng in discussion with Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Randall Lane, Daniela Rus, will.i.am on stage
Screenshot of AI conference deadlines from http://aideadlines.demelo.org/
Illustration of shifting probability mass not just to gold token but also to I-Don't-Know token for wrong predictions
AI@HPI Conference logo