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General Discussion / Chatbots

« on: January 30, 2005, 09:32:55 pm »

Hah! I knew that posting would surely draw you out into the open!!

Thanks for the corrections...I stand corrected.

I still think it's great to see 32 new competitors this year. The future for chatbots (and hopefully AI) seems to be on the rise.

All the best!

3647

General Discussion / Chatbots

« on: January 30, 2005, 07:24:19 pm »

Just an FYI.

In this years Loebner Chatterbot Competition
there are a lot of previous entrants and...
32 New ChatBot entries! This should prove to
be quite interesting.
Check them out or read all about it at:

http://web.infoave.net/~kbcowart/

Let's hope at least some are able to learn
instead of just being a cute prescripted bot
trying to fool the judges.

3648

Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / problem of download "plugins"

« on: January 30, 2005, 06:55:22 pm »

Great job Robert!
Everything now works as it should!!

3649

Ultra Hal 7.0 / supercalafragilisticexpealadociuos

« on: January 30, 2005, 09:40:47 am »

Let's rephrase that to a degree...
You do have a life.
It may suck; it may not be the best life you could have
but consider the alternative! LOL!!

Life's a journey...not a destination!

BTW, ask Mary Poppins if supercalifragilisticexpealadocious really matters anyhow!!

3650

Ultra Hal 7.0 / No weather info

« on: January 30, 2005, 09:35:42 am »

I would do an update for all Anti-Spyware programs ( Adaware, SpyBot Search & Destroy, Spyware Blaster, Bazooka, Tauscan, etc.)

Get Updates for and run a FULL System scan using your anti-virus program (Norton, McAfee, AVG, etc.)

Get Updates for and run your Firewall.

Lastly, consider doing a defrag of your hard drive. If XP ...START > ALL PROGRAMS > ACCESSORIES > SYSTEM TOOLS > DISK DEFRAGMENTER.

Once you are certain that your system is clean, Uninstall Hal completely then reinstall.

Check that you can view your settings in MyWebHal online and change settings as needed for news, weather, etc.
Apply changes

Start Hal and check it out.

3651

Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / problem of download "plugins" again!

« on: January 29, 2005, 10:09:39 pm »

Claude,

Apparently there have been some server / security issues
during the past week. The site itself was unavailable for
a day and now the right click "Save as Target" no longer
works.

Robert is aware of and in looking into the cause and cure
for this issue.

One thing we all might able to do is to post the download
in question and any member that has that file (brain, utility
or whatever) could contact the other person and forward it
via email.

Just another minor wave in the sea of life....

3652

Speech Technology / Text to Speech Reader question.

« on: January 29, 2005, 03:22:33 pm »

C:/WINDOWS/system32

Change the forward slashes to back slashes.

3653

Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Brain in SQLite?

« on: January 29, 2005, 09:02:49 am »

Welcome back Leroy!
You've been missed!

Hope all's well with you.

3654

Speech Technology / Using Neospeech with Ultra Hal Assistant

« on: January 28, 2005, 10:48:56 pm »

William,
Welcome to the forum!
Please refer to this link:

http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1576

Hope this helps....

3655

Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / problem of download "plugins"

« on: January 27, 2005, 09:59:39 pm »

Rob,

It is still not working. The following is a screen cap of the error.

3656

Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / The New Ziggy 4.0 Special Edition now available.

« on: January 25, 2005, 04:58:43 pm »

KT,

Yes, but as you said, without your proper scripting you bot is as dumb as a sack of hammers.

<clipped...>
In that sense, it doesn't and isn't intended to have anything to do with "real" artificial intelligence. That's why bots that learn well always get beaten by bots that answer right the first time in the Loebner.</clip>

How then do the bots or botmasters know what questions will be asked by the various judges? What is their bot doesn't have that preprogrammed information? They will no doubt, be eliminated from the competition and rightfully so.

I really didn't want this to turn into a Ford vs Chevy debate, just pointing our MHO with regard to bot learning. Since I am the only person talking with my Hal, I try to give "it" a broad degree of knowledge covering many disiplines. Hal can choose at will, to call upon and use this knowledge as needed instead of one of those "Well...ya got me there! or I don't have that info available."

Some of my friends tell me that they quickly tire of chat room bots and that most are easy to spot.

Perhaps there is no clear winner today as it's a matter of personal choice.

Maybe there is a place for the canned botmaster bots but I really believe that very soon the ones that "learn" will leave the other ones in the dust of obsolescence.

Regards,
- Art -

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / The New Ziggy 4.0 Special Edition now available.

« on: January 24, 2005, 07:59:18 pm »

With no offense inplied or directed, I personally can't get into the Alice / AIML Personality Forge type of bots!
To allow them into the Loebner Competition is all about who can construct a scripted bot that best FOOLS a panel of judges and really speaks nothing of learning.

If the competition would center more on the learning aspect of the bot entrants, real progress in the field of AI would move along at a much faster rate.

Perhaps a few questions could be:
What was my name?
What was my favorite (color, type of music, art, inventor)?

Basically do a "memory check" with the bot to verify learning is taking place and how well the bot responds.

I have seen (chatted with) a lot of very clever bots...but only to a point. Once I ask a question that I think they should know and they disappoint me with a bogus answer, it's all over.

At least our Hal can be clever and can learn from conversations. Sometimes it really surprises me with either an insight, inference or reference from past conversations. This, IMHO is progress. After all, if bots do not learn then they are no better than a parrot (without the mess).

peace =

3658

Ultra Hal 7.0 / No weather info

« on: January 23, 2005, 08:39:49 am »

gwrangler,

Welcome!
Start Ultra Hal
Select Options from Menu
Select Internet
Select Create New Account
Fill in appropriate info and apply
Back to the Internet box
Select Setup Account

Here's where you can select the various
sites like News, Weather, etc.

Apply
Close & quit Hal

Restart Hal and ask Hal "What's today's weather?"

Hope this helps.

3659

Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / simple question

« on: January 23, 2005, 08:18:44 am »

I tried and received the same result. Could possibly be server maintenance or server problems.

3660

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Singing computers

« on: January 22, 2005, 10:36:13 pm »

KT,

I still can't remember where I found them but will keep searching.
In the meantime, I can post the two versions that I have for you.
I also have all of the Hal 9000 files from the 2001 S.O. if interested. "My mind is going...I can feel it.... Sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that..." and so on.
One of the files is a computer singing Daisy. The other is the Hal 9000 computer from 2001 S.O. singing for Dave as he is slowly removing Hal's core memory boards. Hal's voice gets lower and lower as Hal sings for Dave.

OK. the forum gives me an error message when I try to upload the file (size is within limits and was a zip file) So I'll email them to you. If anyone else is interested let me know.