Dear Shuklendu,
I refer to the telecom which Vishesh had with you last evening
BACKGROUND :
For over past 3 / 4 years, I have been trying to create my DIGITAL AVATAR ( - eventually someday , appearing on anyone’s mobile device as my 3D Volumetric Holographic Image , with which , one can chat , long after I am gone )
Somewhere in the following e-mail exchange , there are links of the portals which I contacted for this purpose, without much progress / success , so far
Then, a few days back , I read about www.Personal.ai ( CEO – Founder , Suman Kanuganti ) , with whom, I exchanged following mails and also had a Zoom meeting on 21st inst
I found their response very prompt and supportive – with a positive attitude
PROCESS FOR CREATION OF MY PERSONAL AI :
Specifically , in my case , this would require “ copying “ , ( from www.hemenparekh.in ) , all the content ( blogs – notes – reports – emails – poems – photos etc ) and “ pasting “ on the concerned page ( TEXT ) of personal.ai website
It seemed to me that , each document has to be copied, ONE AT A TIME ,and pasted
This ( incremental ) process may take many days
Hence, I inquired with Suman, if there was a FASTER method , whereby , thousands of documents ( eg : 2500 blogs ), can be copied / pasted , in ONE GO and AUTOMATICALLY ( without repeated human action )
In response, he wrote :
“ RE: Blogger.com: indeed has an API. See documentation here. If you have a python dev, one can easily get the blog and push to your memory Stack via Personal AI API here. “
Vishesh suggested that I talk to you to find out :
Ø Whether you can write such a software ? ( If yes, then “ time “ and “ cost “ )
Ø Can such a software do what I want ? viz : automatic copy / paste ( upload ) of all existing blogs etc , in one go ?
I suppose , as far as future / new blogs – notes etc is concerned, these will get uploaded / pasted ( on personal.ai website ), as soon as I upload on www.hemenparekh.in ( as suggested by Suman , in case of my future tweets on Twitter )
In case you need any clarification, do not hesitate to phone me on 98,67,55,08,08
If you wish to understand better, please call up my colleague Sanjivani ( in 3P office ) on 22670,70361 or 99870,55507 , who can show you , using ANYDESK or TEAMVIEWER
Regards,
Hcp
PS :
Is Nitin Ruge still with you ? If so, please convey my regards .
Due to an attack of HERPES virus on my left leg , some 30 months ago, I have difficulty walking ( even with help of a walking stick ) . Otherwise, I am ok
I hope everyone in your family is well
Vishesh told me that your son is pursuing his Ph D in Software in USA. I wish him all luck and hope , someday soon, he returns to India to launch a Startup !
From: Suman Kanuganti [mailto:suman@personal.ai]
Sent: 23 October 2021 09:45
To: Hemen Parekh
Cc: Elton Dmello; Lakshmi Yaddanapudi; Sanjivani Kadam; vishesh@incomegroup.in; Kelly Lovett
Subject: Re: hemen your personalized onboarding has been scheduled!
RE: Account Login / Logout: Here is the link for instructions to logout. Let me know. https://docs.personal.
Hey all,
RE: Speech: It won't turn on unless you keep it on. Next week's upgrade will include a voice print that will be capture Hemen's authorized voice.
RE: Deleting Account: Please clear the browser cache. If you need instructions for this, wait for a day or two as I have someone writing this down.
RE: Limit on Copy: This limit is based on the underlying computer. Team suggested up to 10000 words at a time (approx 20 pages). Let me know if this works for you.
RE: Twitter: Twitter will be available built-in in next week's upgrade. You will see emails notifying this. This will sync automatically all the tweets and any new tweets as they come in.
RE: Blogger.com: indeed has an API. See documentation here. If you have a python dev, one can easily get the blog and push to your memory Stack via Personal AI API here.
RE: Facebook and Linkedin: These are not yet on the roadmap. Likely late 2022.
RE: Support: Sounds good. I am also adding my colleague Kelly here who will be on point for support.
Good luck training your AI :)
Suman
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:07 AM Suman Kanuganti <suman@personal.ai> wrote:
It was a pleasure!
I will follow up on the rest.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:10 AM Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
Dear Suman,
Many thanks for taking time out for on-boarding this morning . It will go a long way to get my colleagues started on posting texts ( my blogs )
SPEECH ICON :
After the meeting, we were checking up on the website and found a lot of junk recorded under “ Speech “ section !
I believe your site picked up some / any words from our online meeting , since the “ mike “ was ON . Sanjivani tried to delete as many as she could ( over a period of 15 minutes )
She has now, kept the “ Speech “ icon in OFF position ( I hope , it does not become ON , on its own ! )
DELETING ONE ACCOUNT ( 8934 ) :
In the meantime, I request your URGENT action to delete CACHE memory against a/c number 8934 , on permanent basis
That will enable my office colleagues to start posting of blogs , using a/c 2076
CHARACTER LIMIT :
Please also clarify the limit , if any , on the number of WORDS / CHARACTERS that can be copy/pasted in one go
As mentioned during the meeting, some of the documents that I have written / uploaded on my site ( in REPORTS section ), run into 100 + typed pages
Of course, most are divided into CHAPTERS, which may contain 5,000 characters
API FOR TWITTER :
As far as automatic picking up postings from my Twitter page ( and automatically posting all 5,000 + tweets , in one go ), we will await your API by next week
You also promised to “ investigate “ if a similar API exists for Blogger.com , which can pick up all of my 2500 + blogs in ONE GO
What about similar API for my postings on FaceBook and Linkedin ?
FURTHER / FUTURE SUPPORT :
From my side , either Sanjivani or Elton may write to you.
Thanking you once again,
With regards,
hemen
From: Lakshmi Yaddanapudi [mailto:lakshmi@personal.ai]
Sent: 21 October 2021 02:56
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: hemen your personalized onboarding has been scheduled!
Hi Hemen,
Thank you for confirming. Suman is looking forward o talking with you!
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:08 AM Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
From: Lakshmi Yaddanapudi <lakshmi@personal.ai>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 10:28 PM
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: hemen your personalized onboarding has been scheduled!
Hi Hemen,
Thank you for the note. I'm sending you an invite for Oct 21, Thursday morning at 10 AM.
Hope that works for you.
Regards,
Lakshmi
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 8:57 PM Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
Hi Lakshmi,
I prefer mornings ( IST 10 am till 12 noon ) , but afternoons ( IST 4 pm to 6 pm ) are also fine . Any day , as early as possible
Regards,
Hemen
From: Lakshmi Yaddanapudi [mailto:lakshmi@personal.ai]
Sent: 18 October 2021 20:21
To: Suman Kanuganti
Cc: Elton Dmello; Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: hemen your personalized onboarding has been scheduled!
Hi Hemen,
Sorry interrupt your and Suman’s deep conversation on AI avatars.
I would like to know of times that work best for you. You mentioned 9 am onwards, anytime evening that works better?
Thank you
Lakshmi
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 23:46 Suman Kanuganti <suman@personal.ai> wrote:
Hi Hemen,
I been following a few on your list although hearing about oben and neon for the first time.
I am not sure if there is still active development on Eternime. 2015 was too early for that though it’s enticing to talk about the possibilities.
Replika is a good one and has real people behind it although it’s core is to model an AI friend for empathy and not a personal AI of one individual.
ProjectPAI sounded very academic although I appreciated their push for personal AIs. Calling it PAI is not that cool though :)
Alethea focus on Avatars and now capitalizing on NFT market by attaching GPT3 models to avatars; neat and cool money making strategy but not real utility for humans. I know the ceo well.
Microsoft patent positioning is kinda of odd for tech company and I can be sure there is no actual project behind it. It’s likely an idea from employee that Microsoft went after to building IP portfolio. By the way, if you are interested in our patent here is the link.
There is lot of promise of AI. There is lot of challenges of AI. The challenges are exponential when we talk about personal AIs, the privacy, the human rights, the data processing, the ownership, the technology, the UX and so on. I believe we need strong principles to drive home this dream of personal AI and execute meticulously right by people.
I have surrounded with great humans in AI, Neuroscience, human design, investors and staying heads down building until we hit our minimum viable product of a true personal AI; to sync; to train and to interact. We are working our way to finish the third piece interact.
We shall then be launching and building personal AI for everyone and continuously create the value and utility they promise.
Talk soon
Suman
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:22 PM Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
Dear Suman,
Thanks for your encouraging reply. I hope I did not “ over-question “ you !
But reason for that question is my past 4 / 5 years of , rather “ disillusioned “ experience with following sites ( to create my virtual avatar that would live after I am gone ) :
https://medium.com/@
mariusursache/the-journey-to- digital-immortality- 33fcbd79949
https://oben.me/ ……… https://projectpai.com/
https://www.neon.life/
artificial-intelligence/ ( Neon.life website closed down a few months ago, when their CEO , Pranav Mistry quit to start …https://www.mistryland.org/ )
https://alethea.ai/...........
..... https://www.fastcompany.com/ 90684509/alethea-ai-nft- avatar-metaverse-mark-cuban
I , even sent following mail to Satya Nadella ( Microsoft ) – with not, even an acknowledgement :
From: Hemen Parekh [mailto:hcp@recruitguru.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 2:06 PM
Subject: CREATING VIRTUAL AVATAR
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 :
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
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 )
Ø 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 ) – uploaded on ” My Heritage “ site in English
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
hcp@RecruitGuru.com / www.hemenparekh.in / ( M ) 91-98,67,55,08,08
Dear Suman,
Inspired by your commitment / dedication / obsession – and your openness, I will now, try and find someone who can devote full-time to upload all the documents from my website
Even then, it might take couple of months to upload every document
We will talk more about this, during our Zoom meeting
With regards,
Hemen
From: Suman Kanuganti [mailto:suman@personal.ai]
Sent: 17 October 2021 09:35
To: Hemen Parekh
Cc: Lakshmi Yaddanapudi
Subject: Re: hemen your personalized onboarding has been scheduled!
Yes for all of it but we are not there yet to attached your personal AI to avatar/3d hologram. Our focus is on the intelligent personal AI of one and interaction or messaging with it. Once we have core nailed down, attached to avatars/robots/synthetics is matter of time.
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 9:02 PM Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
Dear Suman,
Before we have the zoom call, I wanted to understand if your site would build a personal ‘avatar’ for me and would be able to achieve what I have written in my statement on your site when asked what I wished to do..
“I want my ai to perpetuate my digital life , created over past 70 years and encapsulated in the form of my digital content as... www.hemenparekh.in / I want my digital / virtual AVATAR ( in the form of a Volumetric 3D hologram viewable on mobile devices - much like what IKIN proposes ) , to be able to hold conversations with anyone in future , even after my death ( I am already 88 + years old ) “
Regards
Hemen
From: Suman Kanuganti [mailto:suman@personal.ai]
Sent: 16 October 2021 18:24
To: Hemen Parekh; Lakshmi Yaddanapudi
Subject: Re: hemen your personalized onboarding has been scheduled!
Hi Hemen,
Thanks for the email. Apologies for the daunting language and we are putting efforts to simplify it.
All the written text can be uploaded along with dates in the app.
All the audio can be played for it to process and edit the dates of the resulting blocks.
The images are supported in the upcoming release but it’s a manual upload for now and video sync is not there yet. Finally it can only train on English at this time.
I will ask Lakshmi to find IST time for us connect. If you feel comfortable to have a tech guy along on zoom it’s fine but not necessary.
Looking forward to connect.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:58 PM Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
Dear Suman,
At the outset, many thanks for this prompt response to my registration (
BETA ) on your site . ( for some reason, I could not login this morning
and had to re-enter my profile again )
As far as your invite for " Personalized On-boarding " is concerned, the
form showed " Oct 27 / 3;30 am " , but at bottom it showed " Indian
Standard Time 09:53 AM " - hence my selection !
Would it be convenient for you to schedule this ZOOM meeting in the Indian
Morning ( anytime from IST
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