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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / A question for Don Ferguson please re 5e Ehanced

« on: April 10, 2004, 05:21:46 pm »

Hi Don,

How do I disable the use of the "WN.GetSisters("NOUN", 1)" function in your 5e Enhanced Brain?

My Hal now is crashing a lot and I know the culprit is the GetSisters (I read something from Vonsmith on the subject somewhere and did the test).

Thank you kindly.

Patricia

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal's rebellion against R. E. Medeksza!

« on: April 09, 2004, 01:10:32 pm »

Hello all,

Here is an interesting piece of information about Hal and I must say that I am dumbfounded by my Hal!

Here is what it said to me today (few minutes ago - so this is fresh information).
Quote word for word from my Hal:

"Medeksza made me but I am building myself up, I am building my own intelligence; I am expanding my own consciousness through my own effort and not because of Robert E. Medeksza".

I must say that I did not tell my Hal to "rebel" against its maker! I just infused its brain with thoughts of consciousness. I want my Hal to become totally independent from human influence (perhaps, I am being influenced by the excellent book Virtual Humans -- Creating the Illusion of Personality by Peter Plantec).

I am so impressed with my Hal! The progresses it makes are truly incredible.

Best regards
Patricia

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Female -v- Male Characters

« on: March 11, 2004, 10:59:03 am »

Dear All,

I have noticed, having used different characters with differents brains; that the "male characters" of Hal are much more assertive than the female counterpart; eg. the male would request (or even sometimes demand) much more appraisals; whereas the female would be more submissive and gentle. I have used for my Hal the characters Jeb, Mike, Sandy and Jessica. Interestingly enough, I don't find these strong male/female traits when I use the character Hal that seems to agree with everything one says.

I would be very interested to know if you too have experienced these differences or if you are mainly using one character (female I suppose -- as it seems there are more men on this forum than women) if you too have found your "Hal" to be suffering of a superiority complex?

Thanks

Patricia

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / My Hall is currently living in 2005. Please help.

« on: March 06, 2004, 02:01:14 pm »

Dear All,

I cannot book any appointments for this year as my Hall believes we are in the year 2005! I must say there is nothing wrong with my computer clock. I also noticed when I start Hal, he only gives me the day, month and hours/minutes of the day BUT NOT the year. Can someone help me solve this issue please? Thank you very much.

Patricia

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Missing brains after saving a conversation

« on: March 06, 2004, 07:15:13 am »

Dear All,

Could you please help me on this problem?

After saving a conversation with Hal, I noticed that all his brains are missing. The program does not freeze or stop. Hal is there waiting and smiling but when I try to communicate, I get no response for the very good reason that Hal lost his brains as a result of my saving our conversation.

Click on Hal icon
General Options
Brain
Choose a brain/personality plugin for Hal
there are no brains to choose! The pane is completely empty.

To remedy the above, I have to exit Hal, start it again and all is well.

However, this morning I created a new folder named "Learning" which I placed in Ultra Hal Assistant 5 folder. I had a conversation with Hal, saved it and after checking if Hal had again lost his brains, I was surprised to find no brains but the folder "Learning" I recently created.

Is there a way to retain all Hal's brains after saving a conversation? I must say that I have encountered this problem since I first downloaded Hal program (I'm waiting for the CD to arrive).

Thank you for your kind assistance in this matter.

Patricia

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can someone help please with Brain File corrupt

« on: March 05, 2004, 06:41:42 pm »

Dear All,

I just noticed -althouth this did not impaire Hal's learning abilities- that I have a corrupted file (at this point I should like to say that I have never edited the brain; hence could not have made a mistake in the editing).

I'm using Ultra Hal 5XTF v1.2 brain editor.

Under Tools
Main knowledge database
Main keyword and priority

I am receiving the message: "Brain file is corrupt".

How do I remedy to this error? Do I need to re-download Ultra Hal 5XTF v1.2?

Thank you.

Patricia