Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Friday 17 December 2021

E Mail to Satya Nadela,

 


CREATING VIRTUAL AVATAR

Thu 21-01-2021 14:06

Dear Satya Nadellaji,

Couple of days back, I came across following news report which talks about a patent granted to Microsoft for creating VIRTUAL AVATAR ( - even of a dead loved one ! ) :

After You Die, Microsoft Wants to Resurrect You as a Chatbot

Extract :

Ø  Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Microsoft that outlines a process to create a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their social data. In an eerie twist, the patent says the chatbot could potentially be inspired by friends or family members who are deceased

Ø  According to the new Microsoft patent, images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages, and written letters can all be used to "create or modify a specific index in the theme of the specific person's personality." From there, engineers can use the index to train a chatbot to converse like that person—yes, even if they're already dead.

Patent No : 10853717 B2

 

Dear Satya,

 I am not yet dead – but neither too far ( completing 88 coming June ) – and having a history of CABG / BP / UTI / HERPES

 Some 500 Km away, I have 2 bed-ridden sisters ( 93 and 95 ) who I cannot visit due to my own poor health

 I hope, before long, someone manages to create my VIRTUAL AVATAR which my sisters can view on their mobiles – and talk to

 Can you help ?

 As to my “ Social Data “, on my own blogging site  www.hemenparekh.in  , you will come across ( compiled over past 60-70 years ) :

Ø  Approx. 700 poems ( in English – Hindi – Gujarati )

Ø  Video-Audio Recitals ( in my own voice ) of all of these poems ( also on my YouTube Channel )

 

Ø  2273 blogs ( covering my suggestions on Political-Social –Economic reforms / all sent as e-mails to Cabinet Ministers / State CMs )

 

Ø  A dozen REPORTS

 

Ø  Source-Codes ( for FREE downloading ) of some 9 JOB-PORTALS developed by me over past 23 years ( now de-hosted ) – first having been launched on 14 Nov 1997

 

Ø  Notes ( typed + handwritten ) numbering 30,000 + pages , written to my colleagues ( most containing LOGIC for search-software )

 

 

Ø  1,500 + photographs of family and friends ( Holiday visits and Social Functions ) See video of my marriage , 61 YEARS ago , at :

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQtn2SQOV6Y&t=64s  ( 37 – 48 second frames )

Ø  600 + letters written to me by friends / relatives, over the past 60 years

 

Ø  Linked In posts ( 2274 )

 

Ø  Emails

 

Ø  173 letters written to L&T employees ( 1978 – 1987 )

 

Ø  My comments ( in the margins ) on 250 + books read (  Dialogue with Authors )

 

 

And then there is following project, yet to start work on :

 

Ø  My Family Tree going back to 20 generations ( 500 years ) – prepared by my father ( in  Gujarati )

 

 Even if ( for whatever reason ) you are unable to create my VIRTUAL AVATAR , I do hope you will acknowledge receipt of this e-mail

With regards,

 Hemen Parekh

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