Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, was described by friends and colleagues as a brilliant individual with a sense of humor.Poornima RamaraoSuchir Balaji was a researcher at OpenAI who later accused his employer of violating copyright law.One of his OpenAI colleagues told BI that he was one of the "true geniuses" at the startup.Friends described Balaji as a brilliant person with a passion for artificial intelligence.Longtime friends and former colleagues gathered at a private memorial service at the India Community Center in Silicon Valley on Saturday to remember Suchir Balaji, who many said was an intelligent but humble individual with impressive technical prowess."He was the sharpest person I ever met," Aayush Gupta, who interned with Balaji at Scale.AI in 2019, told Business Insider, adding that he was an "independent thinker." In his speech to the assembled crowd, Gupta said Balaji "seemed like he was entirely self-taught."That brilliance didn't go unnoticed at OpenAI, where the 26-year-old Balaji worked for nearly four years before he left the company in August and later accused his employer of violating copyright law.Tarun Gogineni, a research scientist at OpenAI since 2022, told Business Insider that he often bounced ideas about artificial general intelligence with Balaji and that his colleague was a "contrarian thinker" who could be seen getting into long debates on Slack and expressing his opinion."He was one of the true geniuses at OpenAI," Gogineni said.Gogineni recalled how Balaji worked with key figures at OpenAI, including cofounders Ilya Sutskever and John Schulman, to help launch WebGPT.
Friends And Former Colleagues Recall Openai Whistleblower As 'one Of The True Geniuses'
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Mon, 12/30/2024 - 2:23pm
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