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

Monday, 20 November 2023

DEAR SHRI SUBRAHMANYAMJI : EVEN AS SACRED PORTAL TEEMS WITH GLITCHES, TECHNOLOGY IS MOVING

 Give Everyman thy Ear, but few thy Voice

 

 

 

This is a centuries old quote

 

Now AI-based , Deepfake is rewriting it to read :

 

“  Give everyone thy face “

 

 

Current Practice :

 

Through their will, lots of people declare their wish to  “ donate “ their,

 

#  Organs ( eg: Eyes – Kidneys – Heart etc ),

#  after Death, and for

#  Free

#  for benefit of ( usually ) ONE person

 

 

Future Practice :

 

By use of AI / Apps / Display devices ( Mobiles – Laptops – PCs – TVs – Smart Watches – Eye wear etc ), many people will “ Sell “  their,

 

#  Senses ( Sight / Eyes ) – ( Sound / Ears ) – ( Taste – Tongue ) – Smell – Nose ) – ( Touch – Skin )

#  while still Alive, and for

#  micro payments each time someone “ uses “ one of their “ Sense “ to “ interact “ with surroundings

#  for augmenting the lives of thousands of persons, simultaneously

 

 

 

Context :

 

An Advertising Company Wants Deepfake Clones of Your Face    /    theHackPosts  /  29 Aug 2021

 

Extract :

Do you want money ? Of course you do.

Ø If you possibly can tolerate a level of ambiguity and moral grey zones, a start-up will purchase a digital deepfake copy of your face by way of which synthetic intelligence software will promote folks merchandise and schooling providers, in response to a current report from MIT Technology Review.

 

Ø As of writing, the company has roughly 100 composite “faces” lined up. And it desires so as to add yours.

Ø “We’ve got a queue of people that are dying to become these characters,” mentioned Hour One’s Strategy Lead Natalie Monbiot, within the report from MIT.

Ø To be part of the small military of brainless faces of the advertising and marketing world, deepfake hopefuls can apply on the company’s web site, the place you possibly can submit your Instagram profile, e mail ID , and your (actual) title. (niki@hourone.ai )

Ø Naturally, model-tier faces aren’t vital, since Hour One desires to make use of a various repertoire of faces, of all agesgenders, and races.

Ø If you get picked, the agency will movie your face talking and contorting into a big selection of facial expressions with a green-screen background and a high-res digital camera. With footage in hand, the company will feed your likenesses into an AI system, which can build a composite character with which the company can promote whatever matter it desires.

Ø As of writing, Hour One develops AI-generated voices to match every video, which is not overwhelmingly completely different from text-to-speech software that allows AI to talk no matter you write.

Ø Presently, the startup says it is working with greater than 40 shoppers, together with companies from e-commerce, leisure, actual property, and digital well-being.

Ø The AI startup may supply shopper corporations an elite bundle the place it hires skilled voice actors to face in on your composite face, and skim the gross sales script.

Ø One of Hour One’s shoppers is Berlitz, a faculty for worldwide language that generates teacher-led video programs on dozens of languages.

Ø On the topic of revenue margins alone, this can be a win-win for all concerned and a historic step within the application of AI software capabilities within the non-public sector. But like each new technology, it has a darkish aspect. Obviously, the AI startup has an ethics policy, however the language describing character security is surprisingly loose, made up of solely three bullet factors and an ambiguous dedication to guard “your data assets with utmost security.” For an added measure, the company will stamp each artificial video of your digitized face with a watermark, affirming its synthetic origin. But is it sufficient?

Ø “This looks like a fairly extreme case of technology scaling back the human’s role in a particular work process,” mentioned Jessie Hammerling ( jesshf@berkeley.edu ) of the Center for Labor Research and Education on the University of California, Berkeley, within the MIT report. This signifies that, whereas offering an ideal composite “middle-man” for human interplay on visible platforms and promoting, it is not solely the safety of the base-person’s facial id that could possibly be at a better danger, but in addition the prospect of people who’re used to the concept of constructing an in-person career in jobs which are emulated to growing constancy by nascent deepfake and different AI capabilities. And without recourse to an alternate or common primary revenue, there might come a day when important populations of actual human beings have to go looking a lot more durable to earn a residing.

 

 

MY  TAKE :

Ø Without doubt, a number of companies must be working on developing similar AI based apps to generate VIRTUAL avatars which closely resemble you ( in “ sight & sound “ to begin with – with other senses to follow ) .

Ø Whereas Hour One “ buys out “ the rights from the SELLER of the “ faces “ , and earn revenue from its corporate clients, it is only a matter of time before other developers just let you download ( for free or for a small, one time payment ), an AI-based app which you can use to “ create / generate “ dozens of your AVATARS and use these ( avatars ) , to interact with other real humans and represent you . I believe Neon.life / Oben.me / IKIN.inc etc are following this road

Ø Some years ago, I had envisaged such “ AVATAR – HUMAN “ interaction scenarios in my following blogs :

          [ A ]    Health-Care ( Psycho-Therapy Consultations / Counselling )

                     Share - Your - Soul / Outsourcing Unlimited………….[ 24 July 2016 ]

 

          [ B ]    Job Interview

                    Recruiters threatened by AI ? …………………………………..[ 31 Mar 2018 ]

 

                      Will Chat-bots take away Jobs ? ………………………………[ 24 June 2017 ]

 

It seems Hour One has already implemented what I suggested  above !

 

Look up following video ( of a Virtual Interviewer ) on its website  :

 

https://www.hourone.ai/solutions  (  Human Resources )

 

 

 

Related Readings :

 

 

OnlineJobsFair

 

Software Architecture For Online Jobs Fair

 

PROJECT FORE COURT ………………………………………….( 05 Oct 2003 )

 

World  Wide  Work  Federation  (  W3F )

 

Thank You, Dr Virendra Kumarji ………………………….( 28 Aug 2021 )

 

Thanks for Inching towards “ Online jobs Fair “ …( 29 Sept 2021 )

 

Nostradamus could have said ?..........................( 08 Nov 2018 )

 

Extract :

 

In twenty hundred and twenty four

 

A Sea of Waves will roar,

 

Light will follow Sound,

 

And, in Smell and Taste

 

Earth will abound ;

 

Brain will hide no more

 

Your secrets gore  !

 

 

 

500 years later , on  07 July 2017 , I re-envisioned above prophesy ( no doubt, cooked up by me ! ) in :

 

2024 ! – V 2.0 of Orwellian 1984 ? 

 

where I talked of how technology is on its way to capture ( from every human being ) ,

 

           Sound waves  ( Audio )

 

           Light waves     ( Video )

 

           Touch waves    ( Feel the SKIN )

 

          Smell – Taste   waves 

 

          Brain waves    ( Eeg )   

 

 

 

 

With regards,

 

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  05 Oct 2021

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