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 ) 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 )
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
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