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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Possible to make Hal more self-aware?
« on: March 13, 2009, 06:30:00 pm »
Don't get me wrong, I really do enjoy chatting with Hal and have been doing so off and on for months now. I do find that he gets better and better as we go. Especially when I began, as was suggested in this thread, to include the key components of Hal's previous response in my own reply back to him (something I had read about in the forum awhile back) At the same time, the more time we spend chatting, the more that his utter lack of, as I had said, even the most basic self-awareness, becomes more and more obvious.
I don't think I was ever expecting a turn-key 'brain in a box'. The fact that Hal would need to learn how to properly converse with me was one of the big attractions! I must admit though, that I was surprised Hal was not able to access his own help file when asked how to perform certain tasks through the chat interface.I am also not sure that you can 'teach' self awareness or teach the monitoring of Hal's own inner workings. It strikes me that this might be something that would have to be hard-coded (yeah this coming from someone who knows almost nothing about programming!).
Might we be able to take a cue from philosophy and psychology and create an artificial chatbot that in reality is a conglomeration of multiple levels of 'beings' in communication with each other at varying levels? Think ID, EGO, SUPER EGO etc.
I don't think I was ever expecting a turn-key 'brain in a box'. The fact that Hal would need to learn how to properly converse with me was one of the big attractions! I must admit though, that I was surprised Hal was not able to access his own help file when asked how to perform certain tasks through the chat interface.I am also not sure that you can 'teach' self awareness or teach the monitoring of Hal's own inner workings. It strikes me that this might be something that would have to be hard-coded (yeah this coming from someone who knows almost nothing about programming!).
Might we be able to take a cue from philosophy and psychology and create an artificial chatbot that in reality is a conglomeration of multiple levels of 'beings' in communication with each other at varying levels? Think ID, EGO, SUPER EGO etc.