Emails (Others): ATTAINING VIRTUAL IMMORTALITY

Sunday 12 May 2024

ATTAINING VIRTUAL IMMORTALITY

Divyendra / Kishan ,

Even as you plan to have a telecom this afternoon for creating an animation of my face ( on www.HemenParekh.ai ) and add a cloned voice which closely resembles my very own ( in several Indian languages ) , you may want to glance through the following article which appeared in today’s Eco Times

This vision is not too far – might even happen while I am still around

Hemen Parekh

· Recently, I found one of my acquaintances giving expert opinions on two TV channels simultaneously. Both, I reasoned, can't be live programmes. Or, is that possible in today's tech-driven world?

Last year, Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern wrote an article, 'I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family'. Even though AI Joanna was able to trick the voice biometric system on her credit card, the automated system asked for additional verification when a video intern for WSJ called and did her best Joanna impression.

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Influencer Caryn Marjorie launched CarynAI, a speech-based chatbot, last year. CarynAI functions as a 'virtual girlfriend' and has a voice and demeanour like Marjorie in real life. People actually paid $1 a minute to chat with CarynAI.

· This chatbot reminds me of the 2013 SF romantic drama film, Her. The Spike Jonze film follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an AI virtual assistant personified through a female voice. Things get eerie down the way.

Humans are creating their own digital clones out of their desire to become many. Several companies are offering clones at a 'low price'.

· This represents a paradigm shift in how people engage in their personal and professional lives. Today, audio-video footage will suffice to make a clone in place of DNA.

· Information from various sources, including podcasts, videos, and texts, is amalgamated to create a replica that can mimic the user's speech, voice, ideas, and even humour.

· The term 'digital thought clone' was first used by Jon Truby and Rafael Dean Brown in a 2021 paper, 'Human digital thought clones: the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence for big data'. The paper describes the evolution of digital cloning into a more advanced personalised form that consists of a 'replica of all known data and behaviour on a specific living person, recording in real time their choices, preferences, behavioural trends, and decision-making processes'.

Such a digital clone can communicate with your loved ones, respond to emails, and manage your social media accounts. Creators, influencers, and business professionals are meticulously crafting clones of themselves with startling, lifelike precision.

Music producer Raymond Ibanga Jr a.k.a. lllmind launched All His Wisdom, a 'smart and intuitive' AI-powered clone that advises aspiring producers. Deepak Chopra developed a life-like AI version of himself for Zoom calls. Your GP is probably making plans right now to increase his practice by setting up a Chat GP2 dead ringer.

So, are we moving towards an era when many people can receive individualised instruction from 'many' coaches and experts at a significantly reduced cost?

· Will politicians and CEOs have digital doubles to attend separate meetings simultaneously?

· Could election campaigns make good use of such digital doubles by being in many places at the same time without the sameness of media coverage?

And what about ordinary people? Can four of me divide the load and work on a meeting, teach my students, write this column and watch a movie? As Truby and Brown explain in their paper, the commercial Holy Grail for profit-seeking big data firms and advertisers, who have commoditised forecasts of digital behaviour data, will be digital thought clones.

As almost identical AI counterparts take on human duties, there are, of course, significant worries about identity theft, job displacement, and decline of genuine (sic) human connection.

· Will individual coaches and teachers become obsolete?

· Should important biometric information, such as voice and physical characteristics, be accessible to create these clones?

Can machines be trusted to operate, given the plethora of available parameters? Can a Joe Biden clone meet up with a Benjamin Netanyahu clone to talk about the Israel-Iran conflict without officially talking? What if Dr Jekyll's AI clone acts as Mr Hyde? And when will your clone remain your clone? He or she could one day jolly well turn around and say that you are his/her clone.

Footnote :

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Turning my Virtual Avatar as a TEACHER to millions of students in12 lakh schools in 6.4 lakh villages , which have only ONE teacher or none ( Students asking their curriculum related EXAM QUESTIONS to my Virtual Avatar , in 9 different Indian languages )

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