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    2017 Board of Directors set for Location Managers Guild

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    LOS ANGELES --

    The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) has announced its newest board members–Alison Taylor, Matt Chamberlin, Mac Gordon and Dan Taylor. These location professionals join returning leadership Kokayi Ampah, Melissa DeMonaco, Mike Fantasia, Wes Hagan, Phill Kane, Eric Klosterman, JJ Levine, Matt Palmer, Mario Ramirez, Rebecca “Puck” Stair, and Dorion Thomas to serve as the 2017 LMGI Board of Directors.

    Taylor has worked in location management for 22 years and been a member of the Hollywood Teamsters (Local 399) for 21. Her credits include feature films and episodic television such as A Wrinkle In Time, Straight Outta Compton, Southland and The Leisure Class.

    Gordon (MacGyver, the X-Files, the Hunger Games: Mockingjay) has been in locations for 25-plus years and has supported the LMGI since its inception and watched it expand from a national to an international organization.

    Chamberlin (Modern Family) has been a member of the LMGI since 2007 and a member of the locations community since 1996. He has worked in the Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta location markets.

    LMGI business member Taylor is currently the facilitator/liaison for the San Bernardino County Film Office and president of the Inland Empire Film Services. He has over 16 years in film permitting and has assisted over 8,000 productions.

    The new Board will meet in the next few weeks to determine its new leadership, including the offices of president, VPs, treasurer and secretary.

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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