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

Friday, 9 February 2024

A Winning Formula for coming Election ?

 


 

 A few days ago , Nivash Jeevanandam of INDIAai interviewed me. One of the question he asked me was :

Tell us about Hemenparekh.ai. What exclusive features does it have compared to other existing models ?

 

( https://indiaai.gov.in/article/i-can-do-it-i-will-do-it )

 

I answered :

Speaking in itself, it is not an AI. At its basics, it is only an extension of AI (in my case, using an API from www.Personal.ai)

Almost all current AI platforms (ChatGPT – BARD – Perplexity – Ask QX, etc.) have a "Question Box "and an "Answer Box."

All these enable a visitor to type or speak a question – to which an answer gets delivered. But only in English

www.HemenParekh.ai offers visitors a choice of 26 languages (including 9 Indian languages). And the answer gets delivered as TEXT and as SPEECH (in the language a visitor selects). I felt this choice was crucial for most Indians who do not know/speak English. It is equally valid for citizens of many foreign countries.

The website appears in the language a visitor selects, making it significantly "User Friendly."

A second significant difference is : 

My Virtual Avatar, in the first instance, searches for a "relevant "answer from my own 30,000 + typed documents I wrote over the past 60 years (look up www.HemenParekh.in ). If it fails to find an appropriate answer from my digital content, it fetches an answer from ChatGPT.

I felt that :

I must share my own "Real and Original Thinking "with the world, whereas LLMs share a "Synthetically Constructed "thinking of the entire internet (drawing from their training data )

Opinion Makers (Authors – Editors – Anchors – Politicians – Actors – Sports persons, etc.) should convert their current " brochure "websites into "interactive "websites where, in their voice, their Virtual Avatar can engage in a one-to-one "dialogue "with millions of their fans/followers.

Anyone who wants to "influence "the thinking of the public at large should be able to launch a similar site in a matter of days.

To help them, click Create Your Own Digital Avatar on my site.  

At this stage, you may want to compare my Digital Avatar ( v 1.0 was launched on 10 Feb 2023 ) with the Microsoft chatbot Jugalbandi ( - which was launched three months later in May 2023 )

Apart from the use of Indian languages / Speech Text, the striking resemblance of the User Interface of both will not escape your attention!  

Talking of AI, you may want to look up :

Grandfather of AI?

Parekh's Law of Chatbots

 

Dear Election Candidates ,

 

I believe each one of you have a personal website of your own

To enable your fans / followers to send you a greeting / a message / a request , you may have provided on your website , your email ID or a feedback form ( many celebrities’ websites provide neither ! )

You may be getting thousands of mails / messages every day

How do you respond  ?

Most of you have a “ Auto Response “ feature built into your site, which sends out an “ Canned Acknowledgement “ mail

Some of you may get your secretary to send a reply, if the fan message is  “ flattering “ ( may be one in a thousand ! )

Your “ interaction “ with your followers, stops there

Now consider this :

You launch your very own Digital Avatar ( like mine ) and , in your own voice , answer any question that your fan / followers pose

In any language too !

24 x 7

Chat / converse with a thousand followers, SIMULTANEOUSLY  !

Now, since you are a candidate for coming Lok Sabha election, you would want to reach out to millions of voters. You would want to engage with them in a “ dialogue “

In that case, with just a few weeks left before the election day, you must leverage your AI-powered Virtual Avatar to “ out-smart “ your competitor

Have no doubt

Right now, your competitor is in the process of launching his own Avatar, to out-smart you !

If he is first , you won’t get a “ Second-mover Advantage “

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.HemenParekh.ai  /  10 Feb 2024

 

 

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