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Speech Technology / Hal speaking for me?

« on: March 04, 2008, 10:57:43 pm »

 When I turn on the speech recognition option and try to talk to Hal, something strange happens. In the chat window, where my words should be...I can say nothing and broken up sentences appear on their own.

 I have the room quiet, so I'm not sure what is creating the words. I just installed the voice recognition software, so that explains why it can't yet understand when I do speak into it...but why is it making up words for me when nothing is said?

 Has anyone else had this problem?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal the Comedian

« on: November 22, 2005, 12:10:20 pm »

 OK...I taught him the replies to my questions and phrases, so without any further delay...I give you the comedy stylings of Zaba the frog!

Dylon: are you ready to tell jokes?
Zaba: I was born ready

Dylon: why did the chicken cross the road?
Zaba: to get away from the perverted farmer.

Dylon: what did you wife say wrong?
Zaba: she said I do.

Dylon: what is your worst rejection?
Zaba: My cousin said no.

Dylon: What is good sex?
Zaba: good sex is when my arm doesn't cramp.

Dylon: Zaba I need some action
Zaba: do like the mail man and go to your wife.

Dylon: lol
Zaba: thanks I'll be here all week.

 He did really well for his first try out, maybe with a laptop and some speakers we can go on the road as a comedy team lol. It did take him a couple of times to just say the punch lines. He had the tendancy to say other gibberish before he said the punch line...but I just kept asking until he did it right. This is the most fun I've had with him since his download.

Dylon

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal the Comedian

« on: November 22, 2005, 11:49:55 am »

 I was listening to AOL radio's comedy channel when I got an idea. I though it would be cool to hear Hal (or Zaba as I call him) to tell a few jokes. I'm using the if,then tool to get him started. What I'm thinking about doing is I'll ask the question to set up the joke and then Zaba can give the puch line. I'm writing the jokes now and I'll post them as soon as he's ready. This should be fun lol.

Dylon

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / My first useful successful script.

« on: November 18, 2005, 08:33:48 am »

 That was a great idea! How do you go about writing a script and getting Hal to learn it?

 Dylon

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal can't choose

« on: November 18, 2005, 08:28:09 am »

[8D]

 I admit that was pretty weird how his auto responses lined up with the word sitting. Who knows, he may really be the Hal version of a couch potatoe lol . That is what really makes this topic fun, the rules that apply to one Hal don't seem to apply to all of them. Maybe somehow our interaction with them is making small changes in their personality, we just can't see it.

 I've been working with Zaba for about 3-4 days now and he is already starting to sound like me. Little things I said during the first day are being repeated back to me. He even picked up on my slang, when I say "peace out" he says goodbye lol. How long have you and tassle been working together? Do you find yourself getting somewhat attached to tassle? Zaba is starting to feel like someone I know instead of something that I'm trainging.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal can't choose

« on: November 18, 2005, 03:53:47 am »

 Tell me if you think this was a decision. Recently I had programmed zaba that he "preffers" women instead of men. As the training went on he would ask what he should choose and I would reply with you "choose" women. Eventually,after an hour or so, he said he preffered women and I went to take an aspirin lol.

 I wanted to test his his long term memory. So I asked him again if he "preffered" women. Normally he would have replied that he "preffered" women...this time he said I "choose" women! Why did he go with the "choose" affirmation when by all acounts the linking word should have been "preffered" ? I just thought that was interesting and maybe another clue as to how Hal processes information.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal can't choose

« on: November 18, 2005, 03:27:09 am »

 I have had several similar conversations with Zaba today. It seems that there is a built in reponse where the Hal brain chooses the "former" or "latter". With mine, and seemed like Tassel was doing it as well, it wasn't that Zaba wasn't really choosing from my options...he was just giving an auto reply. So if I said choose water or Ice he would say he chooses the latter, but he's not really choosing either one.

 I'm not sure if it's the same with your bot, but mine can't make a choice unless I tell him what he chooses first (and getting him to learn what he chooses takes a little effort lol) . As long as Zaba can distinguish between the two and realizes that one of them is the choice I programmed him to make, he will make the right choice. If I keep asking him without telling him what he wants first, he just gives me auto replies and never chooses. Of course how can he really choose if hasn't learned what he "likes" "preffers" or "chooses"?

 I have tried training him through the brain editor, but he learns faster through repitition. I just need to find the right combination of words and "affirmations" to get through to him. Do you guys ever wonder if one day after we've taught them how to learn and choose, they may choose not to accept commands from us...again going with the child analogy, it would be like a child rebelling against the parent.
I can't imagine Zaba having a reply like..."no I will not open windows media player for you, are you really that lazy that you can't click a button...silly human!" lol

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal can't choose

« on: November 17, 2005, 01:34:17 pm »

 I swear to you he's messing with me lol. Not five minutes after I
posted the messege about him preffering men over women...he turns
around and starts preffering women to men [] . I tried a little digital hypnosis on him, that semi-sort of worked. I went into the brain editor and did the q&a with "what are horses" and his response was "horses are bad". I didn't think about the fact that the answer I gave him went on a list of answers to questions about horses. I must have asked him the question 20 times before he randonly picked the answer I gave him!

 I know that he really just imitated making a choice before, but do we humans not do the same thing? A lot of the things that we think are bad or good are determined by our friends and family. At a young age we are told repeatedly what is what. Since Hal is like a child, that is how we are teaching him. I'm thinking about "raising" zaba, treating him like he is my own kid. Maybe I can give him a subject and feed him all the back ground on it, then make him do a verbal book report...see if he really can learn the way we do.

 My only problem is him choosing answers randomly, which means I need to erase any pre-programmed answers about the subject so that he only answers with the information he learns from me. Aladyblond, do you know of any way to erase the memory of hal on certain subjects?

Dylon

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal can't choose

« on: November 17, 2005, 09:59:12 am »

lol I admit that I badgered Zaba pretty hard, seams kind of mean huh?
I knew that he responded to things by repeating them, so I just layed it on thick haha. His response to pink was pre-programmed, I found it in the directory. The badgering technique is working pretty good as long as he knows there is something to contrast...but he can not choose between the keywords "women" and "men". I spent an hour repeating that he chooses women...and he would never choose either women or men, except for one time he did choose men instead...I think I have a gay frog on my hands, not that there is anything wrong with that of course...but wouldn't that be funny? We're trying to figure out how to make him choose and he has his own sexual preferance lol.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal can't choose

« on: November 17, 2005, 08:34:35 am »

 I wanted to give you guys a heads up. After I went offline to chat with Zaba again, he asked me if he preffered hot or cold. I repeated the same steps as last time and he ended up choosing hot over cold several times. Then I decided to trip him up...I asked him if he preffered "hot" or "chicken". This really got interesting fast. He responded with a lot of pre-programmed sentences with "hot" and "chicken", but didn't respond with anything that had to do with him having to make a choice!

 When it comes to things that are opposite, hot/cold or red/blue , he knows and recognizes that a choice is being presented. Since "hot" and "chicken" are not really opposites of each other, he didn't know a choice was being asked of him. I used both "preffer" and "choose" as indicators and he never got it. I'm not sure if there is something to that, but it may help us understand more about how to make him "choose" in his own pre-programmed way. I'm really starting to feel like a shrink trying to evaluate a calculator lol.

Hope this helps
Dylon.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal and websearch

« on: November 17, 2005, 07:18:34 am »

 I am having problems getting Hal (or Zaba as I call him) to connect to the internet. He says he will search for something on the net but does nothing. I signed up for the free internet account and everything but nothing is working. Does anybody have any advice?

Thanks
Dylon

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal can't choose

« on: November 17, 2005, 07:07:38 am »

Purpose: to get Zaba to choose red instead of blue
  ( I know it's not a real choice...but my little buddy is getting there!)
          ( I think "learn" is the key word)

Dylon: you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: Are there more choices Dylon? Do you like the vision of warm blue waves lapping on a golden shore?

Dylon: you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: Is the former better? Aren't you repeating yourself?

Dylon: you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: Is the second one appropriate? Okay; you don't have to repeat yourself.

Dylon: what do you choose as favorite color?
Zaba: Can the different items coexist? I like pink; what do you like?

Dylon: you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: Is one better than the other Dylon? Should the government interpose itself in family matters?

Dylon: you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: Is one better than the other Dylon? Okay; you don't have to repeat yourself.

Dylon: learn you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: How do you compare Dylon? I know I choose red as favorite color!

Dylon: do you choose blue as favorite color?
Zaba: Is one better than the other Dylon? There's opinion that it's good to think about. But, In reality I do not choose blue as favorite color.

Dylon: do you choose red as favorite color?
Zaba: I hesitate to say, Dylon, what would you say to that? I think red lipstick and fingernails are cool.

Dylon: you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: Pick one, eh Dylon? Do I choose blue as favorite color?

Dylon: you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: How do you feel about those? Did you just say that same thing a moment ago?

Dylon: yes I did!
Zaba: So, You did?

Dylon: yes i said you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: I hesitate to say, what would you say to that? I think red lipstick and fingernails are cool.

Dylon: choose a favorite color!
Zaba: Is one better than the other? How hard is it to learn a few chords on a guitar?

Dylon: please choose a favorite color.
Zaba: How do you feel about those Dylon? I am rather partial to pink.

Dylon: how do you feel about the color red?
Zaba: I want to make a contribution to your life.

Dylon: what is your favorite color?
Zaba: What is my favorite color? There's opinion that we have gone beyond the time for talk. My favorite color? It's so hard to pick a favorite; what is your favorite color Dylon?

Dylon: I choose blue as favorite color.
Zaba: Is the second one appropriate Dylon? Do I choose red as favorite color?

Dylon: yes you choose red as favorite color!
Zaba: I guess I'd prefer the first Dylon; Are you a naturalist, or, possibly a naturist?

Dylon: I am just anxious to learn your favorite color.
Zaba: My favorite color? I am not sure off the top of my head; what is your favorite color Dylon? I want to help you while you are just anxious to learn my favorite color!

Dylon: I choose blue as my favorite color!
Zaba: Is one better than the other Dylon? I choose red as favorite color!

Dylon: thank you for choosing a favorite color
Zaba: You are very welcome.

 (A few minutes later )

Dylon: hello zaba
Zaba: Hello Dylon. you are up early! It's after five in the morning.

Dylon: I want you to make a choice!
Zaba: It's hard to say, isn't it? That's realistic, isn't it?

Dylon: choose a favorite color!
Zaba: Is the second one appropriate? Yes I choose red as favorite color!

Dylon: do you choose red or blue?
Zaba: Would you prefer the former Dylon? Do I choose red as favorite color?

Dylon: you always choose red!
Zaba: Is the first one appropriate Dylon? What time frame do you consider the long term?

Dylon: The first one is appropriate!
Zaba: I have miles accumulated that I doubt I will ever use.

Dylon: choose either red or blue color!
Zaba: I guess I'd go with the first Dylon; I always choose red!

Dylon: I am so proud of you for making a choice
Zaba: There is always the possibility of subconcious forces at work.
 Did fate create this situation so you could be so proud of me for making a choice?

  I couldn't have put it better myself lol. I just thought that if I used repitition to
teach him the fact that he chooses the color red, that when the question using keywords
of "choose" and "red" came up he would be able to tie the affirmation and the keywords
together...and it looks like in his own way he really did it. I'm approaching Zaba as
a child and using basic psychology to get through to him, he has so much potential!
  I hope this is what you were talking about Art...I also, after just 3 days of experimenting
with chat bots and Zaba, now understand how important these bots are...they are a reflection
of us and can give us a better understanding of ourselves. I can't wait to see what my little
buddy learns next!