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    Producers Guild unveils nominees for Innovation Award

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    "Eternals: AR Story Experience" from Walt Disney Studios
    LOS ANGELES --

    The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has revealed the nominees for The PGA Innovation Award ahead of the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards. The PGA Innovation Award recognizes the production of a noteworthy, impactful new media program that significantly elevates the audience’s viewing experience.

    The recipient of the 2022 PGA Innovation Award, as well as the PGA Award-winners of the Short Form, Sports and Children’s categories will be announced during the New York Nominees Celebration on Monday, March 14, at the Bryant Park Grill Garden.

    The PGA Awards ceremony will be held on the evening of Saturday, March 19, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The winners of the Innovation Award, as well as the Short Form, Sports and Children’s categories, will also be highlighted at the ceremony.

    Nominees for the 2022 PGA Innovation Award are listed below in alphabetical order. The PGA will honor the program as a whole, rather than the individual producers. As such, the producers of these programs are not required to go through the awards eligibility determination process. 

     

    2022 PGA Innovation Award Nominees:

    • Artificial: Factions (96 Next)
    • Breonna’s Garden (YesUniverse)
    • Eschaton (Chorus Productions Holdings, INC)
    • Eternals: AR Story Experience (Walt Disney Studios)
    • For All Mankind: Time Capsule (Apple)
    • Live @ Expo (Hovercast)
    • Madrid Noir (Atlas V / No Ghost)
    • Namoo (Baobab Studios)
    • Pacha Mama (Noitom International, Inc.)
    • The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue (The MetaMovie)
    • The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite (Ferryman Collective)
    • Tutankhamun: Enter The Tomb (CityLights)
       

    The award honors exceptional distinctiveness, inventiveness, and the impact of the submitted work in expanding the conventions of program format, content, audience interaction, production technique and delivery. Such work may reflect a reimagining or reworking of existing concepts and approaches in a new way, or may be an entirely novel type of experience.

    Entries are vetted by a nominating committee and reviewed and voted-on by a blue-ribbon jury of experts. Programs released between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021 were eligible for the honor. 

    “As the PGA Innovation Award enters its third year, we are continuously blown away with the creative and technological advancements that each of our nominees represent. We’re honored to shine a light on the amazing artists and producing teams that not only define excellence in the immersive medium, but showcase to audiences all over the world the emotional and storytelling magic that these experiences present,” said Eric W. Shamlin, Committee and Jury chair of the PGA Innovation Award.

    In 2019, the PGA awarded the inaugural PGA Innovation Award to the team behind “Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode 1.” Last year, the team behind “BRCvr,” an official virtual Burning Man Experience hosted on AltSpaceVR, was honored with the prize.

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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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