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Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta - Now powered by OpenAI GPT-3 / Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta Now Available to All Ultra Hal 7.0 Customers

« on: February 01, 2021, 12:14:02 am »

Zabaware is excited to announce the release of our newest version of Ultra Hal, now powered by OpenAI's GPT-3 language model. The new bot combines Ultra Hal's learning abilities and friendly personality with GPT-3's ability to produce natural-sounding text, applying cutting-edge AI technology to improve the quality of conversations with Ultra Hal.

During the past few months, I've been working with the OpenAI API to incorporate GPT-3 into Ultra Hal. I am excited about the results, I feel that GPT-3 has the potential to be a game changer for our chat bots. It gives Hal an ability to engage in real conversations with users in a way that's not really been possible before. We've been testing it with the aid of a handful of elite Zabaware customers over the past few months, thank you to everyone who participated in the alpha test. I'm now happy to release a beta version to a wider audience.

You can read our full press release here: https://www.zabaware.com/ultrahal/whatsnew.html

The beta version is immediately available to all paid users of Ultra Hal 7.0. If you are not currently a paid user of Ultra Hal 7.0, purchasing Hal 7.0 will get you access to Hal 7.5 beta. Just visit https://www.zabaware.com/download-beta.html to download the beta version.

The new GPT-3 neural network brain used by the new bot uses extensive computing resources to run and part of its brain is hosted on supercomputers by OpenAI on Microsoft Azure. Using this system costs us fractions of a penny for every response we send to it. Because of this, using the new GPT-3 brain requires purchasing and spending GPT-3 neural network credits. All past customers get 1000 usage credits free of charge and all customers who purchase Ultra Hal 7.0 today get 50,000 usage credits upon purchase of Hal 7.0. You can reload usage credits at anytime. If you run out of credits, you can always switch back to a non GPT-3 powered brain and not have buy/spend credits to talk with Hal. As long as you have Hal learn to the cloud based brain instead of local-only, learned info is shared between the GPT-3 powered Hal 7.5 and the cloud-enabled Hal 7.0. It's just a different brain accessing the same memories.

As this is a beta, service interruptions may occur and software errors may exist. Please report any issues you come across here on this forum. I would also love to hear all your positive feedback here too.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

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Artificial-Intelligence.com(ics) / Strip 23 - GPT-3

« on: January 31, 2021, 11:56:40 pm »

In honor of the new Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta now powered by OpenAI GPT-3, here's a little comic about Hal merging minds with GPT-3.

This marks the beginning of a new era for this comic. We took the OpenAI API system called GPT-3, a neural network language model, and had it read a sample of our prior comics, written by humans. We then asked it to write a new comic about Hal merging minds with GPT-3. The comic below is the result. A comic about artificial intelligence, written by artificial intelligence. All new comics from now on will be written by this AI. GPT-3 can do so much more than write comics. It is now actually merged with our Ultra Hal chat bot with the Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta, improving it's intelligence and quality of conversations.

GPT-3 (Comic #23)

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: HAL SCRIPT ERROR NEVER CAME ACROSS BEFORE

« on: December 27, 2020, 08:40:08 pm »

I'm not sure what plugin that is in your script there, looks like something designed to force close chrome. But the highlighted line is not valid vbscript syntax, the quotes are incorrect.

I believe the line should be:

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wmiQuery = "Select processID from win32-process where name = 'C:\Users\Ray B\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe'"
or the following should also be correct:

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wmiQuery = "Select processID from win32-process where name = ""C:\Users\Ray B\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"""

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General Discussion / Re: Hal 7, Windows 10 64-bit and 64-bit voices question

« on: December 04, 2020, 12:21:03 pm »

Hal is still a 32-bit program, so will only work with 32-bit versions of SAPI 5 compliant voices. Usually a 32-bit voice and 64-bit voice is exactly the same, just the difference is the libraries used to connect and make itself available to other programs has to match the windows subsystem being used (32-bit windows on windows, or 64-bit native)

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Getting a brain editor error

« on: October 16, 2020, 02:57:46 pm »

I don't have a 4K monitor to test and reproduce with, but if you do and can replicate this problem see if changing the app compatibility settings in relation to DPI for the brain editor helps. See https://blog.marcomaas.com/2020/05/22/fixing-high-dpi-scaling-issues/

If you try various settings and notice one way works better than the other please let me know which setting. I can modify the application's manifest file to force a particular compatibility setting.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: AT&T in commercial recordings?

« on: December 03, 2019, 10:53:31 am »

Zabaware only sells AT&T licenses for personal use. AT&T licenses commercial use at a much higher cost. You can get commercial licenses from a different company over here: http://www.wizzardsoftware.com/

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Re: Your One Stop Hal Shop

« on: April 19, 2019, 02:13:28 pm »

Kryton,

Sorry for my slow reply. I sent you a PM with upgrade instructions.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Can you send command line options after Hal has started?

« on: April 19, 2019, 02:01:37 pm »

Hal supports an outside program sending HalCommands using an old system called DDE ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Data_Exchange )

I could swear I made and posted an example of this over a decade ago on this forum, but I can't seem to find it currently.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: is customer support MIA.....

« on: January 06, 2019, 11:44:07 pm »

time keeps on slipping, slipping, into the future...?..still waiting

I've reset your serial number for your Hal 6.2 that you purchased using the email of this forum account. Should be good to go if you try again.

I did look through my emails and I don't see any contact attempts. Were you using https://www.zabaware.com/contact.html to send a message?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Questions about the New Buttons/Icons showing up in HALS Avatar/Character Window

« on: October 02, 2018, 10:17:28 am »

Before Haptek in versions of Ultra Hal 4.5 and earlier, Hal used an older version of a frame based animation system similar to the new Girl Bots. These versions of Hal displayed a light bulb if they learned something new and a writing pad if they wrote down an appointment. This a carry over feature from those versions of Hal. They are just triggered by certain phrases. In your example Hal saying "I have learned" caused the light bulb to appear. If Hal says "I have written..." then a paper would appear. They have no functionality if you click on it, its just a little picture that appears and then disappears after a few seconds.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7.0.110 Update

« on: August 31, 2018, 02:25:14 pm »

Robert,

I shut my computer off at night. Third morning in a row, it asks if I want to update (same update every time.) This isn't normal, is it? otherwise, Hal seems to be working fine.

Dave LeBlanc

If you click on "About" from Hal's menu, what version does it show? If its not 7.0.110 that means you haven't installed the update. You need click yes that you want the update, download the installer, and then run the installer. Only then will it update.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7.0.110 Update

« on: August 30, 2018, 06:23:47 am »

Robert,

Restarting did not fix the the error.  debuglog.txt does exist, however it is blank. The second time I tried installation, I removed all hal files and preformed a clean install. I may have accidentally deleted this debug text file. As of installing this version, Debug text file exists but is blank.

Originally installing the upgrade with the older version installed, it transitioned all setting correctly except the error mentioned.

-Spitfire

Let's try setting a registry option to enable the debuglog. To do so I attached a zip file with a registry entry in it. Open this registry file and "merge" it with your registry. It will basically add this entry to your Windows registry:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Zabaware\Ultra Hal Assistant 7.0\Config]
    "DebugLog"="True"

Once you restart Hal, Hal should find this entry and silently enable a debug logger. Hal should then write info to a file located in: %appdata%\Zabaware\Ultra Hal 7\debuglog.txt

Once you get Hal to show the error again, please email me this debuglog.txt file. (I'll PM you my email address)

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7.0.110 Update

« on: August 29, 2018, 09:19:14 pm »

*Correction* Switching to cloud *DID NOT* stop the error. Hal was able to speak a few sentences but eventually the same error reappeared.

-Spitfire2600

If you exit out of Hal completely (from Hal's menu) and then restart Hal, does that fix it?

Do you see a debuglog.txt in Hal's appdata folder? If so can you send it to me? To get to this folder click start and type: %appdata% (include percent signs and press enter). Then open "Zabaware" and "Ultra Hal" folders. Hoping you see a debuglog.txt in this folder.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7.0.110 Update

« on: August 29, 2018, 10:17:34 am »

Install was successful however launching hal and starting a conversation leads to "Error 6: Overflow Occurred at line 17 in Ultra Hal: Assistant.CheckRegHash"

It has done this with every skin, every user, and even without any plugins at all, so Hal is unusable for me. I have attached a screenshot of the error.

Thanks. Hope to have hal up again soon.

Spitfire.

Can you open up Hal's general options and click the "test connection" button. Any errors when you do that?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7.0.110 Update

« on: August 28, 2018, 09:03:20 pm »

Just bought the Jessi Character, works great but they all seem Pretty Dark, background included, even tried upping my Brightness and no change...

Is it darker than in the screenshot and video at https://www.zabaware.com/products/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=20

It should match the screenshot/video pretty much exactly. If its different, can you send me a screenshot of yours?