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

Sunday 30 January 2022

Microsoft says : User is the Content

 


Context :

How Microsoft is charting its Metaverse entry  /  Business Line /  19 Jan 2022


Extract :

Calendar year 2022 will be significant for Microsoft in India as it charts the initial progress of its metaverse plans and new product launches. The company told BusinessLine that its Mesh for Teams metaverse offering will go live in the country in the first half of the year.

Its metaverse building block Microsoft Mesh complements its mixed reality hardware HoloLens 2.0. The company has also announced a public preview of two solutions in India :

#  the Microsoft Mesh app, where you can view in 3D; and

#  the Altspace VR, which will be used to hold meetings, town-halls in virtual reality and 2D mode on PCs.

Microsoft India, interestingly, is also getting vocal about creating an open ecosystem for its next phase of metaverse-backed growth.

An open ecosystem might become a pre-requisite for building cross-platform experiences once metaverse becomes a mainstream reality.

Rajiv Sodhi, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft India, [ rajiv@microsoft.com ]. told BusinessLin : 

“As we develop for a metaverse-powered future, we have a foundational belief in open ecosystems, where identities and content easily flow between experiences, regardless of platform, and should not be controlled by a platform broker.

We believe this is necessary to fully unlock the promise of the metaverse. What we have announced so far is our metaverse platform called Microsoft Mesh, which will enable developers in the ecosystem to start building solutions for the metaverse-shared digital workspaces.”

Metaverse wave

Metaverse features are being integrated differently into the various verticals of Microsoft’s business, says Praveen Mellacheruvu, Country Head-Business Applications, Microsoft India.

“If I look at metaverse, it is manifesting itself in different ways in different parts of the Microsoft Cloud stack. On the Azure side, there’s Mesh. On Teams and productivity, there’s metaverse use cases,” he told BusinessLine.

“And Dynamic suite is still a bit old school till now and primarily focussed on solving some critical problems around businesses over remote access. For instance, help someone repair a complex set of machinery sitting 10,000 km away. This is where it uses HoloLens to spot where the machine is.

That’s where Dynamic is adding value through technology for use cases like maintenance, services, training and audit, to name a few, and how to do this remotely. This is gaining traction during the pandemic,” Mellacheruvu added.

 

According to Sodhi, Microsoft Cloud provides comprehensive set of capabilities to power metaverses that blend the physical and digital worlds by connecting and creating digital twins of places, people and things, and enabling collaboration in mixed reality.


“Our IoT capabilities enable customers to connect to physical assets and create their digital twins in the cloud. Our AI capabilities help reason on this data and enable natural interactions using powerful speech and vision machine-learning models. Microsoft Mesh transforms collaboration and connection by creating a shared sense of presence from anywhere, on any device,” he said.

 

 

MY  TAKE  :

 

 

[ A ]

Meta-Verse : a later day “ Chakra-Vyuh “ ? …………………….[ 29 Oct 2021 ]


Extract :


Meta-Verse

They know that, once entered, they will never be able to come out of Meta-

Verse ! Trapped for life ! Exposed for rest of their lives !

 

[ B ]

Nightmare ?                                                                  [  04  Mar  2018  ]

 

 Extract  :

 

Parallel to the Theory of Thermodynamics , I would like to propound the

following  as far as the “ Theory of Information “ is concerned :


 “  Like Entropy, content keeps growing with each and every human interaction ,

 either with other humans or with his environment , and content can no longer

 remain hidden , nor can it be destroyed  "

    

[ C ]

Data becomes an Air Molecule…………………………………… [ 30 July 2019 ]

 

What is heartening is that many respectable persons and organizations have

 joined together to “ release the content “ from its  various “ bondages “ of

 websites – apps – databases – hardware – software applications – operating

 systems etc

 

 It is high time Bureaucrats in charge of drafting our own Data Protection Bill, ask :

  

“  At the rate at which data is getting generated / transmitted / transformed /

 mutated / migrated / consumed , by 7 billion citizens of the World, all without

 their knowledge or permission , is it at all possible to even “ define “ what is DATA

 ( and what is not ) , much less possible to “ protect / confine “ it in any

 manner  ?

 

 

Is it possible that “ indestructability “ of  Data renders futile all questions as to its

 “ Beginning / Origin “   or  its “ End “ ?

 

 

Will any Data Protection Law become obsolete even before the President signs it ?



 

[ D ]

Nightmare ? #Aadhar #Privacy #DataProtection              ..

[  04  March  2018  ] :

 

Extract :


#  Technology has advanced so far – and continues to accelerate even faster –

     that it is possible to treat “ Content ( personal  / private data ) “ like an air

     molecule , which keeps travelling freely around the earth and gets inhaled a

     trillion times ( content consumption ) by a billion humans .

 

    Introduction of 5G and Li-Fi technologies  will speed up this process even

    further


#   With the arrival of Quantum Computing , it will soon become possible for the

     same content ( personal / private data ) , to exist simultaneously at multiple

     places , but in differing formats


     A “ Text Posting “ on Facebook may well appear on different media as

     Voice  or  Image  or  Smell  or  Touch !

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[ E ]


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 )   

 

Even though this might have sounded a bit Nostradamus-like 17 months ago, it

 seems just around the corner !


Read what Microsoft President Brad Smith said 2 days back :


“For the first time, the world is on the threshold of technology that would give a

 government the ability to follow anyone anywhere, and  everyone everywhere.



It could know exactly where you are goingwhere you have been and where you

 were yesterday as well.



And this has profound potential ramifications for even just the fundamental civil

 liberties on which democratic societies rely.



Before we wake up and find that the year 2024 looks like the book ‘1984,’


let’s figure out what kind of world we want to create, and what are the safeguards

 and what are the limitations of both companies and governments for the use of this

 technology. ”


 

Dear  Ashwini Vaishnawji – Rajeev Chandrasekharji ,

[ Ministers for Electronics and Information Technology ]

 

PEGASUS is old hat

[ Read :  Will mother Medusa replace son Pegasus ?  / 29 July 2021 ]


 Question to be asked – and answered – is :


Will proposed DATA  PROTECTION  BILL , manage to “ protect “ personal data ?


To me, the answer appears to be a resounding, NO  !

 

With regard,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 31 Jan 2022

 

Inching closer to ARIHANT ?

 


 

Context :

When Mind Melds With Machine, Who's in Control? | WIRED /  11 Jan 2022

Extract :

Direct brain-to-brain communication is just as ethically fraught.

It’s a beautiful, utopian impulse—the sense that if only we could fully see what’s inside one another , contentions would cease.

Should it prove technically possible, however, the question of privacy becomes all the more salient.

In the same way that social media companies must grapple with content moderation, brain devices would need to filter inter-brain communication for harmful, hateful, or violent thoughts.

There might even be patterns of problematic neural activity that can be passed between people like computer viruses.

Epileptic seizures, for example, can be learned by the brain in a process known as “kindling.” Like arsonists setting fire to a city, malicious actors might seek to inject such maladaptive brain activity in a bid to harm other users.

We’ve got to reckon with the implications of agency and privacy as they pertain to AI today, before they’re interfaced with our bodies and minds.

We’re being promised new avenues of human control, when it is precisely control we’d be ceding in what could be the largest deprivatization of thought since the invention of language.

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Telcos told to store ISD call details for two years    /     Hindu    /    30 Jan 2022

 

Extract :

The government has mandated storage of international calls, satellite phone calls, conference calls and messages made over normal networks as well as on the Internet for a period of at least two years, according to circulars issued by the Department of Telecom (DoT).

The move follows an amendment made in the unified licence (UL) in December which extended storage of call data records as well as Internet logs to two years from one year. UL holders are telecom companies like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea, BSNL for providing all kinds of telecom services, except satellite phone services.

“The licensee shall maintain all commercial records, call data record, exchange detail record, IP detail record with regard to the communications exchanged on the network.

Such records shall be archived for at least two years for scrutiny by the licensor for security reasons and may be destroyed thereafter unless directed otherwise directed by the licensor,” the circular dated January 27 for voice mail, audiotex and unified messaging service licence said.

 

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MY  TAKE :

Fast Forward to Future ( 3 F )                                 [  20  Oct  2016  ]

Extract :

Stephen Hawking said :

 

" Success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization . But it could be the last - unless we learn how to avoid the risks

 

Alongside the benefits, AI will also bring dangers like powerful autonomous weapons or new ways for the few to oppress the many

 

 We cannot predict what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI

 

Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one - industrialization "


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 There is hope , Dr Hawking  !

 

 In the form of the " Speech Recognition " technology breakthrough , announced yesterday by Microsoft

 

A system that recognizes spoken words , just as well as a human

How can this breakthrough save the humanity from a " Evil Runaway AI - ERA " ?

 

Here is how :

 

#  Every smart phone to be embedded with this technology ( and every human to

    carry one , all the time ), in  the form a mobile app to be  called :

  ARIHANT 

( Conqueror of :

 Kaam-Sex / Krodh-Anger / Lobh-Greed / Moh-Desire / Mud-Ego / Matsar-Envy )

    

#  24*356 , this technology will pick up ( record ), every single word spoken by

    the owner, throughout his life

 

#  All these spoken words ( conversations ) , will be transmitted to a CENTRAL

     DATABASE called , MIND READER  Of  HUMAN  INTENTIONS

 

#  There , the BIG DATA ANALYTICS / AI , will interpret those " Intentions " and

     alert authorities for any EVIL  INTENTIONS ( those that break the 3 LAWS Of

      ROBOTICS , formulated by Isaac Asimov )

 

#  Authorities will be alerted to arrest the owners of EVIL INTENTIONS ( captured

    by ARIHANT )

 

 If Google could become a " Database of written Intentions " ( through more than

 a billion typed Search Queries per day ) , then there is no reason to disbelieve

 that ARIHANT could become a " Database of Spoken Intentions " of the entire

 mankind ( may be a billion conversations , EVERY SECOND ! )

  

And since Google is a member of a consortium formed a few weeks back for the

 advancement of AI , it will be too happy to integrate its own , very powerful

 " Language Translation Software " into the ARIHANT

 

This will enable catching of  EVIL INTENTIONS  expressed in any language !


Fast forward to 2026

 

If implemented , ARIHANT ( the Omnipotent / Omnipresent / Omniscient AI ) will

 eavesdrop on every spoken word of every human being , decipher the problem

 faced and deliver personalized / customized solutions through IoE ( Internet of

 Everything ) network

 

 

And what can stop ARIHANT  from picking up all exchanges of data

 communication, between those " powerful autonomous weapons " if they are

 embedded with IoE enabled sensors and each assigned its own IP V 6 address ? 

 

 It is not enough to raise questions about the potential evil usage of AI

 

We must find methods to prevent such evil use of AI

 

Mankind must be saved !

 

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Related Readings :


Racing towards ARIHANT ?                                      [ 04  Aug  2017 ]


to : Alphabet / from : ARIHANT                               [ 12  Oct  2017  ]


ARIHANT  :  on the  horizon ?                                  17  May  2018 ]


ARIHANT : Beyond “ Thought Experiment “               [ 21  May  2018 ]


Will ARIHANT humble the hackers ?                          [ 11  Feb  2019 ]


Faith Renewed in ARIHANT                                       [ 23 Dec 2019 ]


Balancing : National Security vs Personal Privacy        [ 19 July 2021 ]

 


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Dear Shri Ashwini Vaishnawji / Shri Rajeev Chandrasekharji ,

( Ministers for Electronics and Information Technology )

 

I urge you to mandate our Scientists at INDIAai , to experiment with my 6 YEAR old suggestion re : ARIHANT


As to how close we are to giving birth to ARIHANT, please read :


DeepMind’s new technique can train AI to avoid unsafe behaviours in real world

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  31 Jan 2922

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