Your English is quite good no need to apologize.
You pose a lot of thoughtful and interesting points.
The AI brain collection similar to SETI sounds great
but it would be a massive undertaking to say the least.
What I've seen are many different "groups" of people
all over the net, dealing with their individual or
specific areas of interest regarding AI. There isn't
one common "standard" since there is so much diversity
with regard to approach, programming languages,
applications, "standards", purpose and funding to name
but a few.
The best we can hope for at the present, are small groups
of great people like we have here at this open forum
along with some others like
www.digitalgirl.co.uk and
several university sites.
Correction of Hal: I think Jerry (onthecuttingedge2005)
recently wrote a correction script that will allow you
to "correct" Hal is you accidentally type an incorrect
entry. Use the Members or Search feature at the top
right of the screen and search for his correction script.
I found the thread for you:
http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2869Hal started out many years as a very simple help bot and
has evolved to version 6. Each one is better, more
powerful than the previous one. As long as there are AI
enthusiasts and bot fans, Hal will continue to advance.