Worldcoin : Conceptually same as YUP ?

 

 

[ YUP = Your Unique Profile ]

Context :

Introducing Worldcoin  ………… 24 July 2023

Extract :

More than three years ago we founded Worldcoin with the ambition of creating a new identity and financial network owned by everyone; the rollout begins today.

 

If successful, we believe Worldcoin could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy, enable global democratic processes, and eventually show a potential path to AI-funded UBI.

 

Worldcoin consists of a privacy-preserving digital identity (World ID) and, where laws allow, a digital currency (WLD) received simply for being human.

 

We hope that, where the rules are less clear, such as in the U.S., steps will be taken so more people can benefit from both.

 

You can now download World App, the first protocol-compatible wallet, and reserve your share.

 

After visiting an Orb, a biometric verification device, you will receive a World ID.

 

This lets you prove you are a real and unique person online while remaining completely private.

 

As the global distribution of Orbs is ramping up, you can find the closest one and book time to be verified with World App and at worldcoin.org.

 

Worldcoin is an attempt at global scale alignment, the journey will be challenging and the outcome is uncertain.

 

But finding new ways to broadly share the coming technological prosperity is a critical challenge of our time. We hope you’ll join us.

 

Alex Blania & Sam Altman

 

MY  TAKE :

 

Ø  How many NATIONAL databases of Indian Citizen ?............ 03 July 2021

 

Extract :

POSSIBLE SOLUTION :

Ø  In India, we have 760 million Smart Phones and 400 million ( 40 crore ) Feature phones

Ø   Most likely those feature phones are being used by Unorganized Workers

Ø   Govt should replace these FREE, with ( 4G ) Smart phones upon surrender of feature phones

Ø   At Rs 1,000 per phone ( if 40 crore were ordered ), that would cost the Govt, Rs 40,000 Cr

Ø   These smart phones must be pre-installed with  FACIAL RECOGNITION  features and an app as described in my following blog / email :

       I am One , I will become Many ………………………………..[ 06 Jan 2020 ]

 

Extract :

Following is my suggestion :

 

      Ø    Central Govt to launch a online portal called, www.SUIIC.gov.in (  Single

             Unified Identity for Indian Citizen )

  

     Ø      By appropriately enacted Law, Central Govt will order all CARD ISSUING

             AGENCIES to upload their “ Card Related Databases “ onto SUIIC web

             server and continue to do so DAILY for new additions to their databases

         

     Ø      SUIIC will use AI - Machine Learning - Big Data Analytics etc.,  to merge /

             collate all kinds of structured / unstructured databases pertaining to all

             kinds of Cards / unique IDENTIFIERS, issued by any entity, to any citizen

                     

         These will include Mobile Service Providers and E Mail ID providers

 

     Ø      This exercise will lead to creation of UNIQUE PROFILE for each citizen, and

             named :

                        YUP  ( Your Unique Profile )

          YUP ( with unique serial number ) will be that SINGLE CARD which

          replaces all CARDS

 

     Ø       YUP will also be the name of a Mobile App supported by SUIIC web server

 

     Ø       Any citizen can download the YUP ( absolutely VOLUNTARY ) , open it on

              his smart phone , enter his mobile number / E Mail ID and take a SELFIE of

              his own FACE

        

     Ø      The Mobile App will automatically and instantly, upload the FACE IMAGE

              onto SUIIC database and the matching YUP of that person

          

     Ø      SUIIC will embed into the FACE PHOTO , all data of all the CARDS ever

             issued to that person ( using STEGANOGRAPHY ), and send it back to the

             owner’s mobile phone

         

     Ø      Just under the FACE PHOTO, there will be a DROP LIST of all the Cards /

             Identifiers which have been embedded 

             Touching any item, will reveal the actual Physical Card

 

     Ø       This will enable that citizen to EDIT his personal data online and click

              SUBMIT

 

     Ø       Anytime required in future, that citizen can show that YUP photo to any

              party

 

     Ø       There will be no compulsion for any citizen to use YUP . He may continue

              using his Physical Cards, if he so desires

         

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This is a very broad “ CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK “ – and certainly not comprehensive by any standard

Eg :

Going beyond merging / aggregating / unifying , all existing physical cards belonging to a person, what about :

 

      Ø     Enabling him to use YUP to create ( for the first time ), an altogether

             different card ?

 

      Ø     Enabling a person to create new Voter Card, upon attaining the age of 18 ?

 

 

I urge Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji to get this examined by some eminent technologists

 

I suggest that newly appointed TASK FORCE, headed by Shri Shibulalji, may consider my suggestion in the context of the following reports :

 

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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs in Exchange for Cryptocurrency 

 

Worldcoin has designed an orb-shaped device that would scan a person’s iris to construct a unique personal identifier.

 

Extract :

Ø  “I've been very interested in things like universal basic income and what's going to happen to global wealth redistribution and how we can do that better,” Altman said. “Is there a way we can use technology to do that at global scale?”

 

Ø  The company aims to help economies transition to crypto-currencies “through a novel approach: a dedicated hardware device ensuring both humanness and uniqueness of everybody signing up, while maintaining their privacy and the overall transparency of a permission-less blockchain.”

 

Ø  The device is a silver-colored spherical gizmo the size of a basketball that can be carried around and used to scan people's irises in order to ascertain their unique identities, Blania said

 

Ø  According to Blania, iris-scanning is an essential part of the plan because it can prevent people from trying to register multiple times to defraud the system.

 

Ø  He's also aware of the privacy implications of handing over biometric information to a tiny startup and said Worldcoin will make the process as transparent as possible so users can see how the data is used.

 

He said the iris scan will produce a unique numerical code for each person

and that the image is then deleted and never stored.

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.hemenparekh.ai  /  25  July  2023

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I could not resist consulting ChatGPT and BARD . I asked :

" 

Please compare Sam Altman's " Worldcoin " with Parekh's YUP as described here > [ YUP = Your Unique Profile ] / https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2023/07/worldcoin-conceptually-same-as-yup.html "

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BARD replied :

Sure, here is a comparison of Sam Altman's Worldcoin and Parekh's YUP:

Feature	Worldcoin	YUP
Consensus mechanism	Proof-of-stake	Proof-of-work
Energy efficiency	More energy-efficient	Less energy-efficient
Identity verification	Centralized	Decentralized
Scalability	More scalable	Less scalable
Ownership	Tools for Humanity	Parekh

  

Consensus mechanism

Worldcoin uses a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, while YUP uses a proof-of-work consensus mechanism. This means that Worldcoin is more energy-efficient than YUP. Proof-of-stake is a more environmentally friendly way to secure a blockchain network, as it does not require miners to compete with each other to solve complex mathematical puzzles.

Identity verification

Worldcoin uses a centralized approach to identity verification, while YUP uses a decentralized approach. This means that Worldcoin is more scalable than YUP. Centralized identity verification is more efficient, as it can be done by a single organization. However, it is also more vulnerable to censorship and data breaches. Decentralized identity verification is more secure, as it is not controlled by any single entity. However, it is also less scalable.

Ownership

Worldcoin is owned by Tools for Humanity, a non-profit organization founded by Sam Altman. YUP is owned by Parekh, the individual who created the project.

In summary, Worldcoin and YUP are both projects that aim to create a global, decentralized identity system. However, there are some key differences between the two projects, including their consensus mechanism, identity verification, scalability, and ownership.

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Added on 14 Aug 2023 :

Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs. / 07 Aug 2023

One evening last month, a crowd of cryptocurrency enthusiasts gathered at an art gallery in downtown Manhattan. They were greeted by a scene from science fiction.

At one end of the room was an open bar. Across from it stood a loose array of gray pedestals, arranged like a futuristic Stonehenge, each displaying a metal sphere about the size of a bowling ball.

The event was a launch party for Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project created by Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, and the crypto company he co-founded, Tools for Humanity. As music thrummed in the background, guests congregated around the shiny orbs, which looked like a cross between a giant eight ball and HAL 9000, the rogue computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

The gathering was a small step in what Tools for Humanity claims will be a world-changing project: to scan the eyeballs of all eight billion humans, and then use that one-time ID to offer small allotments of cryptocurrency to support them in a world upended by artificial intelligence.

Every Worldcoin orb contains a camera designed to record images of a person’s irises. The orbs convert those scans into bits of numerical code, which are supposed to serve as a new type of digital ID. In the short term, Tools for Humanity plans to generate revenue by offering its iris-based system as an alternative to security technologies like CAPTCHA, the photographic test that is used to sort humans from spam accounts.

Ultimately, Worldcoin’s backers envision a grander plan to protect people from A.I. advances that they claim will eliminate millions of jobs. They are promoting the orbs as a possible foundation for universal basic income, a welfare system in which everyone receives guaranteed payments, and argue that iris IDs will help distinguish real people from robots.

To skeptics, the prospect of a privately owned crypto company’s handling the biometric data from billions of people sounds like a recipe for dystopia, with echoes of the 2002 Tom Cruise film “Minority Report.” But Tools for Humanity has raised $115 million this year from venture capital investors, even as funding for crypto has dried up during a downturn in the industry.

Tools for Humanity is part of a growing array of crypto firms trying to latch on to the hype around A.I. to propel digital currencies back to relevance after a miserable 18 months of market crashes and bankruptcies. Its project also shows how powerful figures like Mr. Altman are seeking to profit in a tumultuous period, creating moneymaking ventures to mitigate the negative effects of A.I., even as they aggressively develop the technology.

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Next ChatGPT replied :

Sam Altman's "Worldcoin" and Parekh's "YUP" are two distinct concepts aimed at addressing different challenges, but they do share some similarities in terms of their goals of creating unique digital identities.

1. Worldcoin: Worldcoin is a project founded by Sam Altman with the ambition of creating a new identity and financial network owned by everyone. The project comprises a privacy-preserving digital identity (World ID) and, where laws allow, a digital currency (WLD) received simply for being human. The key features of Worldcoin are as follows:

• Privacy-Preserving Digital Identity: World ID allows individuals to prove their real and unique identity online while maintaining complete privacy.

• Digital Currency for Humans: In regions where laws permit, individuals can receive a digital currency (WLD) simply for being human.

• Global Scale Alignment: Worldcoin aims to align people across the globe, enabling economic opportunity and facilitating global democratic processes.

• AI-Funded UBI Potential: The project envisions a potential path to AI-funded Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the future.

• Orb Device: Worldcoin has designed an orb-shaped device that scans a person's iris to create a unique personal identifier. The iris scan produces a unique numerical code, and the image is deleted and not stored to preserve privacy.

2. Parekh's YUP (Your Unique Profile): Parekh's YUP proposes a concept of creating a Single Unified Identity for Indian Citizens (SUIIC) through a mobile app named YUP (Your Unique Profile). The main features of YUP are as follows:

• Centralized Identity System: YUP aims to merge and collate all structured and unstructured databases from various card-issuing agencies to create a unique profile for each citizen.

• Facial Recognition: Citizens can download the YUP app, enter their mobile number and take a selfie, which will be uploaded to the SUIIC database, creating a unique face profile.

• Card Replacement: YUP intends to serve as a single card that replaces all other physical cards issued to a person.

• Data Editing and Sharing: Citizens can edit their personal data online and choose to show their YUP profile to parties when required.

Comparison: While both Worldcoin and YUP aim to create unique digital identities, there are some key differences:

1. Scope: Worldcoin is a global initiative, whereas YUP is specifically targeted at Indian citizens.

2. Technology: Worldcoin utilizes an iris-scanning device (Orb) to create unique identifiers, while YUP relies on facial recognition technology.

3. Digital Currency: Worldcoin offers a digital currency (WLD) for eligible individuals, whereas YUP primarily focuses on creating a unified identity system.

4. Purpose: Worldcoin's primary goals are economic opportunity, distinguishing humans from AI, global democratic processes, and a potential path to AI-funded UBI. YUP's focus is on creating a single identity profile to replace physical cards.

5. Privacy: Both projects emphasize privacy, with Worldcoin deleting iris scan images and YUP using facial recognition to create a unique face profile.

It's important to note that both projects are ambitious in their goals and may face challenges in implementation, but they represent different approaches to addressing the evolving landscape of digital identities and economic opportunities.

A Breakthrough for powering tiny RFID Sensors ?

 

 

Context :

Organic nanogenerator that harvests light energy can power wearable devices on the go

Extract :

A new nanogenerator device developed for harvesting light energy using organic material has the potential to power wearable devices on the go. 

The device can generate current and voltage from minute amounts of heat or light that fall on it.

The scientific community has been making ceaseless efforts to meet the ever-growing energy demand. Harnessing energy from the nano regime is a prime focus, and exploring energy generation from organic materials is highly useful for sustainability.

Scientists at the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, have developed a nanogenerator device for harvesting light energy using organic material, which has the potential to power wearable devices on the go. 

The device can generate current and voltage from minute amounts of heat or light that fall on it.

The experimental exploration of energy materials by the team at IASST has led to the successful synthesis of an organic energy material called polyaniline-rubrene, and they have fabricated an Organic Pyroelectric Nanogenerator (OPyNG). This work has recently been published in the journal Nano Energy.

The device features an architectural design, as depicted in the accompanying figure, with polycrystalline graphene oxide and polyaniline-rubrene forming a rectifying junction. In this configuration, the polyaniline-rubrene thin film serves as the photoactive layer responsible for generating charge carriers. The pyroelectric effect of the device is induced by the light-induced change in spontaneous polarization occurring in the ultra-thin oxidized surface layer of the polyaniline-rubrene thin film. 

The working principle of the device is based on the pyro-phototronic effect. This effect holds a unique advantage in the pyroelectric nanogenerator (PyNG), as it can optically induce the pyroelectric effect, which is useful for energy harvesting.

The fabricated OPyNG device utilizing organic material provides new insights and opens up new avenues for harvesting energy from organic materials. 

The OPyNG operates in the UV-visible-NIR region in self-powered mode, and it offers significant advantages as it can function as a self-sustainable standalone device.

The fabricated device demonstrates the highest output at a wavelength of 405-450 nm, with responsivity of 167.12 mA/W, external quantum efficiency of 51.16%, and internal quantum efficiency of 63.59%.

 

Additionally, the device exhibits a voltage generation of approximately 157.75 mV and a volume power density of about 51 mW/cm3. 

These achievements are commendable, especially considering the small area of the device, which is only 1 cm². 

Furthermore, the device boasts a fast response time of a few tens of milliseconds. 

Given these characteristics, the device holds potential for the development of various self-powered sensors for applications in healthcare, optoelectronics, and IoT technology.

 

 

MY  TAKE :

 

For past few years, I have been advocating embedding RFID sensors in high

denomination currency notes

Idea is to enable such notes to communicate to Income Tax department Central

MONEY – TRACKING server / software, through any nearby Mobile Phone

If implemented, this could drastically reduce the menace of BLACK MONEY

Till now providing power to those RFID sensors ( without also embedding a

miniscule battery in each note ) is a problem

May be IASST team’s innovation can overcome this limitation . 

I urge IASST scientists to carry out further experiments to establish feasibility of

my suggestion

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.hemenparekh.ai  /  24 July  2023

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AMIGO-MA bids well for Biden

 AMIGO-MA  bids well for Biden

 

Context :

Top tech firms commit to AI safeguards amid fears over pace of change  …  Guardian…

 

Extract :

Top players in the development of artificial intelligence, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, have agreed to new safeguards for the fast-moving technology, Joe Biden announced on Friday.

Among the guidelines brokered by the Biden administration are watermarks for AI content to make it easier to identify and third-party testing of the technology that will try to spot dangerous flaws.

The president said AI brings “incredible opportunities”, as well as risks to society and economy. The agreement, he said, would underscore three fundamental principles – safety, security and trust.

The White House said seven US companies had agreed to the voluntary commitments, which are meant to ensure their AI products are safe before they release them.

The voluntary commitments are not legally binding, but may create a stopgap while more comprehensive action is developed.

A surge of commercial investment in generative AI tools that can write convincingly human-like text and churn out new images and other media has brought public fascination as well as concern about their ability to trick people and spread disinformation, among other dangers.

The tech companies agreed to eight measures:

·        Using watermarking on audio and visual content to help identify content generated by AI.

·        Allowing independent experts to try to push models into bad behavior – a process known as “red-teaming”.

·        Sharing trust and safety information with the government and other companies.

·        Investing in cybersecurity measures.

·        Encouraging third parties to uncover security vulnerabilities.

·        Reporting societal risks such as inappropriate uses and bias.

·        Prioritizing research on AI’s societal risks.

·        Using the most cutting-edge AI systems, known as frontier models, to solve society’s greatest problems.

·        The voluntary commitments are meant to be an immediate way of addressing risks ahead of a longer-term push to get Congress to pass laws regulating the technology.

·        The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has said he will introduce legislation to regulate AI. 

But some experts and upstart competitors worry that the type of regulation being floated could be a boon for deep-pocketed first-movers led by OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, as smaller players are elbowed out by the high cost of making their AI systems known as large language models adhere to regulatory strictures.

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, recently said the United Nations was “the ideal place” to adopt global standards and appointed a board that will report back on options for global AI governance by the end of the year.

The United Nations chief also said he welcomed calls from some countries for the creation of a new UN body to support global efforts to govern AI, inspired by such models as the International Atomic Energy Agency or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The White House said on Friday that it had already consulted on the voluntary commitments with a number of countries.

 

US-India ties: President Joe Biden's Science Adviser calls for AI collaboration with India… Mint… 22 July

Extract :

 

The Science Advisor to President Joe Biden, Arati Prabhakar [engagement@ostp.eop.gov.]

on Friday said that the United States and like-minded countries including India need to work together for

shaping the course of artificial intelligence.

 

MY  TAKE :

 

My 55 Blogs on Artificial Intelligence ( as of 22 July 2023 )

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.hemenparekh.ai  /  23 July 2023

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Added  on  24  July  2023  :

Tech companies say no to more laws, statutory body to regulate AI   / ET  /  24 July 

This comes after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a 138-page report with recommendation on 'Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Telecommunication Sector' on Thursday.

TRAI has suggested that an independent statutory authority, ‘Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority of India ,’ be established immediately for development of responsible AI and regulation of  use cases in India

The development and deployment of AI needs oversight to ensure responsible use and scale up of adoption, but we strongly recommend against creating more laws or statutory authority to regulate AI," Ashish Aggarwal, vice president and head of public policy at Nasscom, told ET

A disjointed and disproportionate regulatory intervention can impede the growth of the evolving AI ecosystem in India and cause avoidable uncertainty, he argued

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Added  on  27  July  2023  :

Tech giants form AI group focused on ensuring safety .. 26 July 

Extract :

FOUR US leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) announced on Wednesday (Jul 26) the formation of an industry group devoted to addressing risks that cutting edge versions of the technology may pose.

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said the newly created Frontier Model Forum will draw on the expertise of its members to minimise AI risks and support industry standards.

The companies pledged to share best practices with each other, lawmakers and researchers.

“Frontier” models refer to nascent, large-scale machine-learning platforms that take AI to new levels of sophistication – and also have capabilities that could be dangerous.

“Companies creating AI technology have a responsibility to ensure that it is safe, secure, and remains under human control,” Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a statement.

“This initiative is a vital step to bring the tech sector together in advancing AI responsibly and tackling the challenges so that it benefits all of humanity.”