Dear Shri Abhishek Singhji
( CEO – National eGovernance Division – NeGD )
I just came across following news-report :
MeitY plans free, open source repository for digital services / Business Line / 05 Oct 2021
- Which reads :
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Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) is looking to find customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions based on Free and open-source software (FOSS) that it could deploy on its own platforms and use it in the future to develop other citizen-facing interfaces
The goal is to create an open-source software repository that could be accessed and used across departments, States and countries
The winning teams will not only work with the government on its various population-scale platforms but also get cash prizes of up to ₹90 lakh to develop their solution.
Abhishek Singh, CEO, National eGovernance Division (NeGD) told BusinessLine ,
“The aim of #FOSS4Gov Innovation Challenge is to create awareness and promote FOSS and to also identify solutions that could be used by the government
Singh said that a key challenge to solve will be to make government online portals smoother enabling citizens to easily interact with the government.
ONI will also be separately awarding a special prize to the team developing and integrating citizen-centric safeguard in their apps which will protect citizen’s data.
we are giving a prize specifically for citizen-centric safeguards as in if there is a feature in the app which is particularly helpful in protecting the citizen’s data, we will award that,” Varad Pande, Partner, Omidyar Network India told BusinessLine.
Singh said, “Developing solutions over FOSS brings in collaborative efforts of several minds while a proprietary software a fixed number of engineers from the company are working on it. There is no vendor locking. You don’t need to work with the same software forever.
Dear Shri Singhji,
I hope the half-baked SACRED portal will , ( hopefully ) soon become ” Senior Citizen Friendly “ . It is, relatively a minor issue
A far bigger issue is :
Despite millions of jobs ( vacancies ) listed on hundreds of Indian Job Portals ( including government’s own National Career Service portal ) ,
- there is no mechanism as of now, to deliver ( perfectly matching ) job-alerts to millions of job-seekers , on their mobiles , AND , enabling them to APPLY ONLINE against those vacancies, directly from their mobiles ( without, having to register / submit their RESUME, on each and every Job=Portal , separately , one by one , and remember dozens of PASSWORDS )
Today , all job-portals are SILOS
What we urgently need is to BREAK these SILOS and make RESUMES and JOB-POSTINGS , freely accessible to everyone, from their mobiles , without the need for REPEATED REGISTATIONS !
I urge you to consider my following suggestion :
World Wide Work Federation
With regards,
Hemen parekh
From: Hemen Parekh [mailto:hcp@recruitguru.com]
Sent: 05 October 2021 12:41
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Subject: 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 ages, genders, 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 :
Related Readings :
Software Architecture For Online Jobs Fair
PROJECT FORE COURT ………………………………………….( 05 Oct 2003 )
World Wide Work Federation
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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