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    Producers Guild’s Produced By Conference to return in June

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    LOS ANGELES --

    The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced the return of its Produced By Conference, which will be held Saturday, June 11, and Sunday, June 12, at the FOX Studio Lot in Century City.

    The 2022 Produced By Conference will be co-chaired by a group of producers including Betsy Beers, creative partner, executive producer, Shondaland; Mike Farah, CEO, Funny or Die; and Charles D. King, founder and CEO, MACRO.  

    PGA’s Produced By Conference is a networking event and educational forum that reaches across film, television and new media to ignite conversation and action around the most pressing issues facing the industry and how producers are shifting the future of the industry. Produced By will also provide the opportunity for attendees to obtain first-hand advice from notable producers during the Conference’s  popular Mentoring Roundtables.  Produced By’s long-standing session, Pitch Perfect, is back this year providing a platform for selected attendees to pitch projects to experienced producers and executives who will provide feedback. Discounted early bird registration for Produced By 2022 is available now through April 30.

    In addition to host sponsor FOX Studio Lot, conference sponsors to-date include: A+E Studios; Batch & Bottle; BEN Group Inc.; Delta, Official Airline Partner; DNEG; GreenSlate; Honolulu Film Office; National Geographic Documentary Films; and Produce Iowa.

    The Produced By Conference 2022 team consists of supervising producer Branden Chapman; program directors Matt Ullian and Jane Sarkin (Boldface Partners); sponsorship director Diane Salerno (Six Degrees Global); marketing consultant Julie Giles (greenHAT digital); and the PGA’s PR agency of record, Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis.

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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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