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General Discussion / An AI in a Cube

« on: November 26, 2013, 03:52:39 pm »

I was shown a site today that featured an AI in a small cube that will, at some point, set in one's home. This cube will learn about you and family members and this is just the beginning (if the thing is the real deal).

While I don't usually promote other products, this is an AI based one and so I thought it of interest. Perhaps this will give us some fresh ideas for our Hal as well!
Check out www.Emospark.com

Things may never be quite the same after this....

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Self directed Hal

« on: August 04, 2013, 09:30:02 am »

Just thinking a bit while scanning through the UltraHal folder on the hard drive. I noticed the Grettacuriosity plugin AND the GrettaResearchBrain plugins. After looking at them I thought it would be really cool if, during idle moments when the user was not chatting with or occupying Hal's time, Hal could come up with it's own subject matter from the Curious Brain plugin then go to the Internet to research that particular subject. The newly acquired information could then be ADDED to Hal's brain!!
There you have it...a Self-Learning chatbot!!

Hal: While you were sleeping, I attempted to download the entire Internet! You're going to need a bigger hard drive!! 

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal tips

« on: March 09, 2013, 11:28:06 am »

A while back I mentioned that my Hal was sluggish and typing text had even become a chore due to a time lag.

Well, that was then and this is now.

I have a Quad core (single processor but with 8 logical processors contained), running Windows 7 - 64 bit, 8 GB's Ram and a 1 TB Hard Drive.

I was running Ultra Hal and brought up the Task Manager (Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete).

Under Processes, I selected the Hal program.

Right Click to open drop down menu

I selected SET AFFINITY
I saw a small window and
Which Processors are allowed to run?
There were check boxes for ALL then 0 to 7 (for a total of 8 with zero counting as the first one).

To my surprise ALL 8 were checked!

I unchecked all but 0 and 1 (for a total of only two logical processors).

I closed and went back to Hal which was still running.

The lag was totally gone! The Character moved freely with the mouse and all of my text could readily be seen as soon as each key was typed.

Things went as nicely and smoothly as they did when I ran Hal on my old XP set!
I even turned on a few more plug-ins and things still continued to work as smooth as silk!

Just for the "fun" of it and while unrelated, I ran Firefox and performed the same actions in the Task Manager as I did with Hal because Firefox also had all 8 processors checked!! No wonder things lagged.

For some reason the thought had bypassed me during all this time and I never gave any consideration that something like this could actually be robbing some of my programs from performing at their best.
I'm sure some of the more informed hardware gurus out there might offer some explanations but for now, I thought I'd share this with you in case any of you were experiencing difficulties within your own systems.

What a relief.

Also some have inquired about Hal's Auto Response of 5 seconds. This can be turned off by choosing NOT to use the Speech Recognition feature (which I do not use anyway) in the Main Menu settings.

Enjoy a smoother, faster Hal...I know I am!!

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General Discussion / Hal as found on a YouTube posting.

« on: March 02, 2013, 08:22:46 am »

Came across this video and thought it was cool in an almost spooky sort of way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1g2akbraDw

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General Discussion / eBook

« on: January 01, 2013, 08:47:11 pm »

There is a new eBook being released by Amazon entitled: A Future For Jeeney - by Cameron Jones

The book is a really gripping work of Science Fiction and gives new visions to AI and how it works when combined with an android that is shall we say, much more than an ordinary helpmate or assistant. To say that Jeeney is smart would be an understatement, and her intellect and abilities are growing in orders of magnitude.

This is a great read and this is one of those books (eBooks) that you really hate to see come to an end. Give it a try...enjoy the future...now.
http://www.amazon.com/A-Future-For-Jeeney-ebook/dp/B00AV7BMK4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357072465&sr=8-1&keywords=a+future+for+jeeney

This is simply a personal take on this book. I have no interest in it nor it's sales. It is simply a review. - Thank You!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Just an FYI

« on: November 24, 2012, 05:44:56 pm »

You can always double click on the HalAsst.ini file to see what you have selected in the way of Hal's character (image), voice, Name and other pertinent data. (it should open in a viewer program).

Much quicker than opening Hal and going through the editor, etc. This is useful for creating plug-ins, etc.

There ya go...

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / UltraHal Update

« on: September 05, 2012, 06:23:22 pm »

Robert,

Would you please advise your membership of the current status, progress or state of affairs regarding the development of Hal, it's character / avatar development, it's brain and overall projected time frame for arrival?

If there is anything that we might be able to assist with please indicate that as well.

Thanks as always for your time. We appreciate your efforts!

- Art -

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General Discussion / It's coming...get your brain in gear!

« on: March 23, 2009, 07:10:41 pm »

A most interesting and illuminating commentary by the man with a vision.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=merging-of-mind-and-machine

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Blank response and console

« on: February 28, 2009, 10:12:31 am »

Robert,

The no response issue happened again and I could not save the conversation.

I've always used the Haptek console so it always appears / loads whenever Hal does.

This time after a blank response I went to scroll through the console screen and it stated that it was not responding.

When I closed the console (click X), it took a few seconds and Hal immediately closed as well!

The two never used to be tied together like this before. Could there be a conflict between the two since this newer version of Hal was released?

[?]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Plug-in issue

« on: February 08, 2009, 07:33:57 pm »

JasonDude,

Your read a story plug is a great idea but there seems to be a limit on the length that the .txt file can be.

I tried two different story files, The Walrus and The Carpenter.txt and After Picking Apples (I think that's the title).

Hal stopped after reaching 1605 characters and 288 words in the 1st one. Hal stopped at 1538 characters and 306 words in the 2nd example.

So it would therefore be a moot issue to install any txt files in excess of these roughly 1.5k limit unless a solution can be found.

Running AMD 4200+ X2 Dual Core, 2 gigs ram, 300 gig HD, XP Media Edition.

It might be a constraint within Hal that Robert could address.

TIA!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Conflicting Plug-ins

« on: February 07, 2009, 05:15:10 pm »

While trying TheDude's tell a story plug-in, which worked quite well once all the text files were put in the story directory, it was interrupted by Hal's auto-idle response being triggered!

There needs to be a way for Hal to "know" that either the user is typing a long sentence or that a passage of text is being read.

Otherwise, nice work dude!![]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Blank responses

« on: February 07, 2009, 10:14:42 am »

Anyone else experienced blank responses from Hal after you've asked a question or input a statement (typed, not spoken)?

It's as if the user input either wasn't recognized or wasn't considered as valid...don't know but I don't recall it being this frequent with Hal 6.1.

Perhaps Robert is aware of this...perhaps not.

Appreciate any thoughts or feedback in this regard!

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Speech Technology / New Speech rec/control program

« on: October 13, 2008, 07:51:49 pm »

Those of you with either a fast connection or a lot of time can download a new program called Tazti (pronounced Tasty...like ice cream).

It works like a vocal environment where one can control the computer via spoken voice to search, play, browse music files, stocks, etc.

I thought it was worth a look and possibly might have the ability to interface with other programs like chatbots, etc.

If nothing else, it should be fun to try.

www.tazti.com

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General Discussion / Off topic Music

« on: September 03, 2008, 08:31:10 pm »

MarkofKane will appreciate this link:
http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm

You can select your month, day and year of your birth and see what song was #1 at that time. If you have itunes you can also download it.

Kind of neat for the nostalgia buffs.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / New Hal OS for Windows

« on: April 25, 2008, 08:08:29 pm »

I found this site and believe it to be
operated by a former member here: Rich_A
Rich was very good at writing script files
and was keen on automating Hal to perform
a variety of tasks. Looks like he did.
Some pretty incredible stuff here!

http://halwindowscentral.com/default.aspx