Joseph Palermo is a research engineer at OpenAI. Among other things, at OpenAI he worked on GPT-4 and is a co-author of the GPT-4 technical report. Prior to that he worked at a startup company in Toronto where he co-developed a state of the art speech synthesis system which generated millions of impressions and worldwide media coverage. He was a speaker at TEDxToronto in 2019 on the topic of synthetic media and its implications.