E Mail to Satya Nadela,

 

CREATING VIRTUAL AVATAR

Thu 21-01-2021 14:06

satyan@microsoft.com

 

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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