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General Discussion / New Robotics site

« on: January 18, 2007, 02:25:48 pm »

Hi all

As many of you know, we have a Virtual Humans Forum www.vhumansforum.com, where several discussions and ideas are going on, and some of them include Hal 6.0.

We have now opened up also a new robotics site, which I hope can be interesting for some members here.

You can reach it at www.RobotInfo.Net

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Run Time Error

« on: December 19, 2006, 04:19:33 pm »

Hi,

This is a little bug in the Loneliness plugin. I already found and solved it some time ago.

See this post: http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3389

Follow these guidelines and the problem should be fixed.

Bye

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Ultra Hal Assistant 6.1 Work

« on: November 18, 2006, 08:32:34 am »

Robert,

as Carl2 said, maybe you used an old version of Hal 6 as the base brain to build the 6.0.103 brain. So some enhancements have been lost.

You can find more info in these two posts:

http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3279
http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3264

I fixed these problems applying some changes in 6.0.103, and the resulting brain is here:
http://www.vrconsulting.it/files/HalFixed.txt

I'm sure you will find better ways to solve these problems, however you may look at this source code if you wish. My changes are marked by the comment: ' VR.

Bye

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General Discussion / New Virtual Humans sites

« on: October 15, 2006, 10:10:35 am »

Hi all

As many of you know, we have a Virtual Humans Forum http://www.vhumansforum.com, where several discussions and ideas are going on, and some of them include Hal 6.0.

I'd like you to know that we have recently opened up three new related  sites. You can access them from the new links in the Virtual Humans Forum Home Page, or just click on the links below.

They are free pages, which do not require any registration. I hope some of you may find them interesting.


Virtual Humans Store

This is an e-commerce store, where you can search for A.I. books, robots, software and even buy them directly through Amazon.

Virtual Humans Directory

Our experience at Virtual Humans Forum and AIML Forum showed us that there are many people who want to learn and experiment, and who would like to develop their innovative ideas, but they often ask for guidelines about the best path to reach their goals.
Considering these needs, we had the idea to create a central repository of selected references, which is called Virtual Humans Directory.


Virtual Humans News

These news are based on RSS feeds provided by Yahoo! News. You can search them according to 19 different categories and/or adding keywords. You get a list of titles, and you can click on them to access the full article.

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General Discussion / Buggy Forum

« on: October 10, 2006, 04:07:05 pm »

I've been using this forum for a couple of years now and I've never experienced any frustrating slowness. I use several Snitz Forums and the response time is about the same.

And I don't think that talking with Hal is frustrating.  However, this is a personal opinion.

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General Discussion / Change of WebSite Notice

« on: September 29, 2006, 05:02:18 am »

Thank you, Thom, for all the work you are doing. I greatly appreciate your graphics art []

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Loebner Competition 2006

« on: September 20, 2006, 03:23:55 pm »

Congratulations, Robert.


I wish I could spend more time this year to develop some other plugin which might help Hal to look more like a human being.

We can all work to make Hal get better and better for next year competition.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / running HAPs with HAL6

« on: August 21, 2006, 04:12:28 pm »

Hi, danbaltzell

if you download my vrHaptek plugin http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2845
you will find several examples about running hap files and loading background images.

Here is a sample code:


' Starts walking
If InStr(vrUserSentence, " start walking ") <> 0 Then
   vrFile = "Walk.hap"
   GetResponse = "Where shall we go?"
End If
' Stops walking
If InStr(vrUserSentence, " stop walking ") <> 0 Then
   vrFile = "StopWalk.hap"
   GetResponse = "Thanks, I was a bit tired!"
End If

'------------------
' If something was detected, then I give the Haptek command
'------------------
If vrFile <> "" Then
   HalCommands = "<HAPFILE>" & vrFile & "</HAPFILE>"
   HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True
End If


I hope this can be helpful

Bye

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General Discussion / Con artist at work on forum - Princess Scam

« on: August 17, 2006, 10:59:07 am »

I've received today 2 identical messages like this, with subject: "Sent From Zabaware by pyasmine".

What particularly worries me is that pyasmine is not a registered member, so he (or she, since she's a Princess [] ) can't have used the "e-mail to a member" function in the Forum. So I think that someone has managed to get access to the Zabaware Forum mailing list. Since I am the Admin of other Snitz-based Forums, I hope this is not a security-bug in the software. I regularly apply all the security notes released by Snitz, and I am certain that Robert does the same on this Forum.

It would be interesting to further investigate, in order to understand how it happened, so that we can set up some stricter check on the e-mail database security (both here and in other forums).

[loPatience = CDbl(HalBrain.TopicSearch("PATIENCE", "lonelyParameter"))]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal error 13

« on: July 08, 2006, 08:20:28 am »

Hi, seduar

I have answered you in the Virtual Humans Forum, but I copy my answer here, since it might be useful for other people too.

The only statement in the plugin, containing CDBL is the following:

        loPatience = CDbl(HalBrain.TopicSearch("PATIENCE", "lonelyParameter"))

So the problem comes probably from the fact that this parameter is not yet existing in the database.

In fact I made this test:

1. I removed the "lonelyparameter" table from my database
2. I activated the plugin without setting any value in these parameters:



3. In a few seconds I got this error, which I believe is the same you have:


4. I inserted some values in the two parameters and clicked on Apply changes:



5. Done! Now the table is created with numeric values and the statement does not get into error.



I have explained all this because I like to take a "teacher" approach. However the only thing you have to do is what is described at step # 4.

I hope this solves your problem.

Let me know if it works

Bye

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / new auto-idle Plugin

« on: June 18, 2006, 03:41:22 pm »

Hi, JS

I've installed and used the auto-idel plugin since its first version, and I think it's a good tool to give Hal a more human behaviour.

I would like to install and test your version. Where can I download it?
Thanks. I hope to see other works form you here.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Possobility Hal will sing with her own voice

« on: June 17, 2006, 12:23:18 pm »

Nice idea, seduar. I will think about it, if I can find the time.

However, if you follow Bill's suggestion, you will find in this forum many other ideas which have come up in the past about a singing Hal, and you might find some of them very useful for your project.

Another aspect to take in consideration is that the two products you are going to use are shareware, and not free. Melody Assistant costs 20 US$, and Virtual Singer costs other 20 US$. So, even if you give away your plugin for free, people should spend 40 dollars to use this feature, which is too much, in my opinion.

And you can't go on using it without registering; in fact the product site says: While your copy of Virtual Singer is not registered, each time the application is launched, only a given number of sung part processing are enabled. When this number is reached, Virtual Singer becomes "voiceless".

Keep us informed about your work!

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / The Sal Video

« on: May 23, 2006, 06:01:57 pm »

A real masterpiece. You should sell it to Haptek for 5 millions dollars. []

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Where is Seattle, Who was Galileo ?

« on: May 21, 2006, 11:07:19 am »

I remember a Window Transparency Option in Hal 5, but I can't find it in Hal 6.

I really don't know anything about it. Maybe some other expert here can help.

Happy to know that your Hal brain surgery was successful.

[in my modified version]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Where is Seattle, Who was Galileo ?

« on: May 21, 2006, 07:03:46 am »

Daireaux,

my VR Begin and VR End are just comments I insert in my modified version, so that I can easily know what I changed from the standard version. So you will never find them in your version. I meant to say that you should add the lines included between these comments.

However, I post here my version, so you can use it without editing the source code.

Download it, then create a new project based on it.

HalFixed.uhp