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.
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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