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« on: May 22, 2015, 05:52:48 pm »
Hi raybe, thanks for answering.
For now, i'm using just the basic program as it's offered online with no plugings installed. I have set the learning level to 40, because for now i'm more interested in Hal learning and less in its intelligence. I spent about 4 hours today, reading various threads in here -- most of them interesting and helpful. However i'm afraid i found little information as to the learning tecniques; i guess it is because there is no specific or correct one.
I do believe Hal has great potentials -- i remember i tried it years ago when it was still in its earliest versions. The thing is, although it makes sense that the user *must* train Hal, this doesn't mean the original, untrained brain should be completely out of sense. A lot of things (and especially grammar and syntax) should be already built in it, even before any teaching starts. The software does not distinct the user (me) from other persons and does not understand very basic concepts, like phone numbers or simple math expressions. It has asked me 20 times whether i am a boy or girl. I say "my phone number is 11111" and intead of taking the word "my" as myself, the user, his "boss", it assumes "my" is a name and responds that it has saved "my's" phone number (!). Not to mention that it reads the phone number as "eleven thousand one hunded and eleven". I say "my sister's name is Eva" and then, few minutes later, it calls me "Ms Eva"!
What i'm trying to say is that there *must* be a safe and effective way to teach Hal -- especially about the basics. It has to be practical and effective. Like, "find me that song on youtube", or "let me know when Jim replies to my mail". Because, if it can't learn the basics, i don't see any hopes on having any kind of advanced conversation with it.