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

Tuesday, 16 May 2023

You lonely of the World - Come to me

 


 

There are millions of lonely people ( both, young and old ), in the world who are

yearning to share what they feel with others . They want someone to talk to them

– listen to them


After the Covid pandemic, millions became mentally depressed . Can someone

listen to them  - whether across the table or across the continent / offline or

online ?


I turned to ChatGPT to compare and comment on :


Ø  Share - Your - Soul / Outsourcing Unlimited…………….. 24 July 2016

 

Ø  An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute  ……13 May 2023 ( Washington Post )

 

Ø  Snapchat Influencer Uses GPT-4 to Become a High-End AI Girlfriend13 May 2023 ( Medium )

 

Here is what ChatGPT came up with :


The article you enclosed discusses the case of Caryn Marjorie, a social media influencer who has developed an AI chatbot, CarynAI, to interact with her fans.


The chatbot is designed to replicate Caryn Marjorie's voice, mannerisms, and personality, providing an "immersive AI experience" for her followers.


Fans can chat with CarynAI for a fee of $1 per minute, allowing Caryn Marjorie to reach a larger audience and potentially earn significant revenue.


The concept of using AI to enhance personal interactions and provide a sense of connection is an interesting one.


CarynAI demonstrates how AI applications can enable individuals to engage with thousands or even millions of followers in a more personalized manner.


However, it is important to note that these interactions may still be thin and tenuous simulations of human connection.


Your blog post suggestion about an online platform called "www...COUCH...com"

that suggestion about an online facilitates "listening" services provided by young,

educated, and unemployed individuals from India is an intriguing idea.


That platform would connect individuals seeking someone to talk to with listeners

who can provide empathy, advice, and support remotely hrough Skype or

FaceTime.

The concept has similarities to the "Rent-a-Friend" services in Japan and online

 escort services found in various countries.


The proposed platform could

offer a comprehensive registration process for both talkers and listeners,

including personal, family, contact, social media, cultural, educational, and

experience details.


Listeners with degrees in psychology could receive higher rankings, and retired

 or worldly-wise individuals could also be prioritized.


The platform would enable talkers to search for listeners based on their

 preferences and pay $2 per hour, with the portal deducting a 10% commission

and crediting the listener's bank account.


The privacy and reputation systems you described seem well thought out,

ensuring the protection of

user information and allowing talkers to rate listeners on a five-point scale.


The usage history feature would provide transparency for both listeners and

 talkers, displaying past transactions and credit balances.


While the idea has potential, it's essential to consider the ethical

implications and ensure the platform is designed with user safety and privacy in

mind.


Additionally, you mentioned the possibility of using AI to analyze audio recordings

 for various purposes, such as developing AI software to replace human

 listeners or offering voice-to-voice language translation services.


Overall, your suggested blog post

presents an innovative idea for a platform that could potentially meet the

needs of individuals seeking companionship, support, and someone

to talk to.

However, it would require careful planning, attention to privacy and security, and a well-designed business model to succeed.

 

 

Highlights from Sources :

Snapchat Influencer Uses GPT-4 to Become a High-End AI Girlfriend

 Extract :

As I read more about this ChatGPT-powered avatar, I couldn’t help but feel a mixture of fascination and concern.

I understand how the development of an AI girlfriend is an innovative use of technology that highlights the potential of artificial intelligence.

Still to me, it raises a plethora of ethical concerns about the development of digital copies of human beings and the possibility of AI replacing real-life relationships.

I see how the appeal of having a virtual companion who is always there for you, I worry about the implications of this technology for our understanding of human connection.

Will people start to rely solely on AI companionship and abandon real-life relationships altogether? Will future generations view relationships as something that can be simulated and replaced with ease?

Moreover, the creation of digital copies of human beings raises ethical questions about consent and agency.

Innovation in deep-fake technology is mind-blowing, and I can foresee other people creating digital copies of others without their consent.

All these developments seem to blur the line between reality and simulation, so I would like to hear from you about the ethical implications of these innovations.

While the development of AI girlfriends may seem harmless or even exciting, it’s crucial that we approach these advancements with a critical eye and consider the long-term consequences for human relationships and our understanding of what it means to be human.

 

 


An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute

 

Extract :

“These fans of mine, they have a really, really strong connection with me,” she told The Washington Post.


 “Because of that they actually end up messaging me every single day. I started to realize about a year ago it’s just not humanly possible for me to reach out to all of these messages, there’s just too many and I actually feel kind of bad that I can’t give that individual, one-on-one sort of relationship to every single person. I wish I could but I just simply can’t.”


But CarynAI also shows how AI applications can increase the ability of a single person to reach an audience of thousands in a way that, for users, may feel distinctly personal.


The impact could be enormous for someone forming something resembling a personal relationship with thousands or millions of online followers


John Meyer, [ johnhmeyer123@gmail.com ],


CEO and founder of Forever Voices, said that he created the company last year, after trying to use AI to develop ways to reconnect with his late father, who passed away in 2017.


He built an AI voice chatbot that replicated his late father’s voice and personality to talk to and found the experience incredibly healing.


“It was a remarkable experience to talk to him again in a super realistic way,” Meyer said.

 

“I consider myself a futurist at heart and when I look into the future I believe this is the beginning of a very diverse future consisting of AI to human companionship,” he said.


Meyer said services such as CarynAI also will deepen ties between influencers and their followers


Elizabeth Snower, founder of ICONIQ, which creates conversational 3D avatars, predicts that soon there will be “ AI influencers on every social platform that are influencing consumer decisions.”


Marjorie hopes the backlash will fade when other online personalities begin rolling out their own AI companions. Meyer said several have contacted him since CarynAI’s launch.


“I think in the next five years, most Americans will have an AI companion in their pocket in some way, shape or form, whether it’s an ultra flirty AI that you’re dating, an AI that’s your personal trainer, or simply a tutor companion. Those are all things that we are building internally,” he said.


 

That strikes AI adviser and investor Allie K. Miller as a likely outcome. “I can imagine a future in which everyone — celebrities, TV characters, influencers, your brother — has an online avatar that they invite their audience or friends to engage with. … With the accessibility of these models, I’m not surprised it’s expanding to scaled interpersonal relationships.”

 

 

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Ø  Dear PM - Here is your BRAHMASHTRA for 2024  ………………………………. 28 Feb 2023

 

Ø  LIVE: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies during Senate ......................16  May 2023

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.hemenparekh.ai  /  17  May  2023

Monday, 15 May 2023

NEOR : as envisaged

 


 

Context :

Coming soon: A jailbird-like code to identify economic offenders       15 May 2023

 

Extract :

In a far-reaching decision that might close the dragnet on economic offenders swiftly through multi-pronged action by investigative agencies, the government is working on a plan to use an alpha-numeric code for both companies and individuals, The Times of India has reported.


 

It will be known as a Unique Economic Offender Code.


 

Once implemented it might label individuals such as Vijay Mallya or Nirav Modi with such codes.



While errant companies will be tagged with a code that would be linked with their PAN, the code for individuals will be linked to their Aadhaar, the report said.

 

The step that is almost like that of slapping a number on a jailbird is part of a bigger nationwide architecture for efficient investigation and prosecution of economic offences.

 

 

The Centre is putting together a National Economic Offences Records that will be a database of all economic offenders, both companies and individuals.


 

Once it is up and running, all information and data pertaining to economic offences at the state and federal-level will be fed into this repository.


 

The aim of this project is to enable all economic law enforcing agencies to simultaneously start investigating and share information of such offenders and overcome the limitations of the present system which demands that one agency can handover information to another only after it has completed its work and filed the chargesheet. This practice often leads to tardy investigation.


 

The new initiative would allow free flow of information by all Union and state-level investigative agencies.



Incidentally, the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau has already put together a database of 2.5 lakh economic offenders.

 

With economic offences frequently obliterating geographical and political boundaries and the funds siphoned out of one country being regularly employed in another for subversive activities, the move seems to be a part of an international plan to rein in economic offences such as money laundering.


 

An intergovernmental team from the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force is expected to visit India in a few months to have a look at the progress of the architecture. This task force is engaged in maintaining vigil over money laundering and terrorist financing.


 

The project might cost around Rs 40 crore and might be ready in the next five months or so.

 

 

MY  TAKE  :

 

Ø  E - Governance ?   ……………………………  03  April  2014

 

Extract :

Can e-Governance help eliminate corruption  ?

Most certainly

 

Look at the following , partial list of Central and State Agencies set up to fight fraud , money-laundering , corruption , tax-evasion , economic crimes etc :

 

 >  Public Accounts Committee           (  PAC  )

 

 >  Central Vigilance Commission        (  CVC  )

  

>  Central Information Commission     (  CIC  )

 

 >  Research and Analysis Wing           (  RAW  )

  

>  Serious Fraud Investigation Office   (  SFIO  )

 

 >  Information Bureau                        (  IB   )

 

 >  Economic Offence Wing                   (  EOW  )

 

 >  Central Bureau of Investigation        (  CBI  )

  

>  Department of Revenue Intelligence (  DIR  )

 

>  Comptroller and Auditor General       (  CAG  )

 

>  Anti Corruption Bureaus ( States ).... (  ACB  )

 

>  Enforcement Directorate                    (  ED   )

 

>  Lok  Ayukts    (  States   )

 

>  Lok Pal           ( Central  )

 

 

Despite such an army of Agencies , how do corrupt manage to get away  ?

 

Or , in case caught , manage to delay delivery of punishment for years  ?

 

No doubt , there must be several reasons , including , inter - agency rivalry to get credit - something difficult to eliminate altogether

 

But , I believe , the most important reason is :

 

 

Lack of a COMMON  / COMPUTERIZED database of all offences / cases / persons being investigated

 

And , which is readily " Accessible " to all of these Agencies , all over the country ( 24 * 365 )

 

 Already , every Agency compiles huge dossiers on " Suspects " in its own 

" Departmental Database " , which is never shared with other Agencies ,

leading to ,

 

 >   Huge amount of duplication of efforts / information

 

 >   Fractured / scattered profiles of " Suspects "

 

 >   Enormous waste of time / resources

 

 

What will help  ?

 

>  Dismantling of individual departmental databases

  

>  Merging of all Agency-wise databases into a SINGLE / UNIQUE database

 

>  All Agencies to enter their findings / data / info into this COMMON

     database , with nothing preserved on local computers

 

>  All data-entry FORMS to be ONLINE . No paper forms at all

 

>  All local computers connected to ultra-secure Network ( Encrypted )

 

>  " Access Rights " to individuals , based on Biometric Identification

 

 

 

Here is a comparison made by ChatGPT :

 

Here is a tabulated comparison of the salient features of NEOR (extract from

 "Coming soon: A jailbird-like code to identify economic offenders") and E-

Governance (extract from "Can e-Governance help eliminate corruption?"):


Salient Features

NEOR (May 2023)

E-Governance (April 2014)

Objective

Identify economic offenders through a unique alpha-numeric code

Eliminate corruption and streamline governance

Target Entities

Companies and individuals involved in economic offenses

Central and state agencies fighting fraud, corruption, and economic crimes

Coding System

Unique Economic Offender Code linked to PAN (for companies) and Aadhaar (for individuals)

N/A

Database

National Economic Offences Records (NEOR) for storing information on economic offenders

Individual departmental databases for each agency

Information Sharing

Enable simultaneous investigation and information sharing among all economic law enforcing agencies

Lack of a common/computerized database leads to duplication of efforts and fragmented profiles

Accessible

Accessible to all Union and state-level investigative agencies

Limited accessibility and sharing of information between agencies

Cost

Estimated cost of around Rs 40 crore

N/A

Timeline

Expected to be ready in the next five months or so (May 2023)

N/A

Focus

Efficient investigation and prosecution of economic offenses, including money laundering

Fighting fraud, corruption, and economic crimes

International Cooperation

Expected visit by an intergovernmental team from the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force to review progress

N/A

Please note that the information provided in the extracts is limited, and some details may be missing.

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.hemenparekh.ai  /  16  May  2023

 

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Ø  A Half-hearted Measure ?  ………………….. 07  Mar  2016

 

Ø  Still a long way to go !  ……………………….. 25  Aug  2016

 

Ø  United we Succeed : Divided we Fail  ….  29  Sept  2016

 

Ø  Keep Trying   ………………………………………….. 24  Dec  2016

 

Ø  Break-down the Silos !  ………………………….  16 Sept 2017

 

Ø          Blockchain  for  E Governance  ?.. ……………04  Dec  2017

 

Ø  Crime and Punishment …………………………….. 23 Dec 2017

 

Ø  CyberCrimes / DigitalIndia / e-Governance  … 09  Jan 2018

Ø  Blame Game Continues…………………………….09 Apr 2018

Ø  An Umbrella Body ? A Distant Echo ?  … ………..01 Apr  2022

 

Ø  Thank You, Shri Karnal Singhji,……………………… 12  Apr 2022

Ø  DATA is better than Third Degree  ………………… 25  Apr  2022

Ø  Welcome NATGRID : Thank You, Shri Amitbhai Shah .. 04 May 2022

Ø  ED says : No ED ( Escape of Data ) ………………. 28 Nov 2022

 

Ø  One Stop Shop for White Collar Criminals  …… 11  Apr  2023