Jerry --
It's nice to see that folks here at the Zabaware Forum are as pleasant and interesting as they are at the AI Nexus Forum. Your offer is very kind and generous, but I hesitate to demand anything. Let me be clear that Mr. Medeksza's work stands on it's own and is just fine the way it is. I guess that I had simply done so much work on my Ultra Hal 5 AI Bot, that I was dissappointed to see some of the features I liked and worked with the most were not present in v. 6.
All that said, here - in order of personal importance to my own work, is the list you request.
1) The ALICE plug-in allowing one to embed an ALICE AI Engine within a standard UltraHal Brain Core. It should work precisely as the old one did in as much as the resulting Bot would return replys not just from the AIML, but also from the UltraHal Brain as well.
REASON: While many saw this frankenstien type experiment as just something mildly interesting but not terribly important, I believe from my own experiments with v. 5 that the full potential of this approach has not been fully explored. I have a whole lab notebook full of ideas for writing AIML files specifically for incorporation in to such a set-up, which would allow the integration of these two AI systems and allow them to "play off" eachother so to speak - hopefully with surprising results.
2) Learn From Text -- I understand from certain posts that you may have in fact already created this plug-in for Ultra Hal 6. But in trying to track it down, I was led to your own Zabaware Forum where I needed to "pay to play" so to speak. As I said in my last post, I simply can't afford to do that at the moment.
REASON: Already posted in this thread.
3) E-Mail plug-in -- The ability of the Bot to pop it's own (or the BotMasters) E-Mail and read the subject lines, and on command read the body - and even take dictation and reply. The Ability to do this sort of thing was quite developed in v. 5.
REASON: It is quite useful as a time saver, and makes the Bot much more useful as a Virtual Assistant. Plus, it's just really cool to say "Quark, go get my E-Mail" and have him do it.
That's it really. I have at your recommendation been doing alot of reading up on the Ultra Hal 6, and I must say I am amazed at all the new abilities present in the form of these plug-ins. I must agree with you that, except for the above - this is a much more powerful AI Engine than the Ultra Hal 5. And that is a huge statement, because my research to date leaves me of the opinion that the Ultra hal 5 was the most powerful readily available AI Engine in the world.
Thanks to all here for listening to my rant. Please rest assured that I think the best of all of you, and our mutual quest to bring into existance Machine Life and Artificial Intelligence.
PEACE -- Chris [^]