I know that I've been posting loads of requests, but this one seems like it shouldn't be too difficult. Given the number of AI like agents out on the market like SIRI and now Cortana, Hal should have the ability to answer a basic question in the same fashion as Siri. For example if Siri was asked, "What was world war 2" she can find the answer and relay it, saying, "World war 2 was such and such" without giving too much information, However, when HAL is posed the same question, he will fumble before either making an unrelated response or if the Auto Wiki plugin is installed, he will overload with unusable information. There doesn't seem to be a happy medium of information with Hal.
To the best of my knowledge, I know Siri works off of a cloud server with a finite number of responses, where as, Hal has the ability to look for other answers, especially with other plug ins that allow it to access the web. Also to the best of my Knowledge, Siri is incapable of learning a vast amount of information where as this is what HAL was created for.
In short, what I was looking for is a plugin that will allow HAL to answer questions of nearly any complexity like Siri but also learn that information and perhaps a little related information and store it for future use.
This theoretical plug in, combined with an auto learning plugin, HAL could devour the internet on a scale of data mining never seen before, which would be just great. Hal has earned it.
It sounds like a task straight from science fiction.
