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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hals Brain Database questions

« on: March 01, 2009, 05:07:25 pm »

Ok so this is my second post, im still a newbee with hal. I read so many topics on making hal smarter i think my brain in going to explaode, but i dont seem to have read an answer to this question.

correct me if i am wrong but hal uses essentially a relational knowledgebase to accumulated knowledge, creating new entries as he/she goes along. If that is true could'nt you use pre existing databases/knowledgebases, downloaded to your computer, and then installed somewhere in hals brain?

For example i have a database of client contancts a couple hundred of them with fields for name, location, email, phone, and when they were added. couldnt i load that hole thing into hal somehow and then be able to ask hal something like "please name all my clients in eugene oregon".

and if i could do that could you use pre existing knowledgebases and databases that can be purchased online and load them into hal.

Hal could become a prescreen for a doctors visit by including a easily download diagnosis database. hals knowledge of herbal teas could be immediatelly broadened by including a database of teas and their healing properties. sitting down and talking to hald and saying something like "i have a sore throat today" would result in hal searching the tea database and telling you to drink blah blah tea"

And if that is possible then why cant we just download the full Freebase data dump with the thousands of entires already organised into a database format and add that strait into hal?

i know lots of questions and assumptions leading off others. i am just trying to understand hal a little better.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal Server

« on: March 01, 2009, 04:55:15 pm »

Hello my name is James,
 I just recently downloaded the Hal 6.2 Trial and will purchase it when the free trial is up if everything keeps going well. I am having a few problems but nothing i cant work out. I do have an idea/question that i was curious about.

With some of the plugins hal does a very good job as a personal assistant. I have a computer in my office, in my living room, in my bedroom and in the dojo. I would love to have hall on all 4 of those computers but i dont want to have to download hal on each one and teach each one. if i tell hal to remind of an apointment with a client while im in the office i want hal to be able to remind me if i am on the bedroom computer.

obviously going around to each computer and adding hal with all the reminders is worthless, becuse if i could remember to do all that i would remember the apointment without aid.

So what i was thinking, and here is where my question come in, is is it possible to place Hal on a host computer and serve hal to every computer in the house through a Local Network. Doing that i could also build hals host computer with an extra 750gb HD that i have alowing for alot of expansion space for hal'd brain database's. will this work? is it possible? or am on crack.

also if i was to build hal a computer dedicated entirely to her what would you recomend as the system qualities?

i look forward to reading replies.

James
Cortana (my hals name)