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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Flavored Responses -vs- Learning

« on: October 01, 2003, 02:38:42 pm »

There may be some good psychology here to Hal's learning process.  A child learns much in the same way.  Just curious though.  As the child's knowledge base grows, they tend to compare new information with previous encounters.  So the question is raised, "How gullible is Hal"?

For example, I was standing outside someone's house during a party and noticed a child playing with the flowers.  I told her that they smell better if you pick them.  Well, needless to say, when I returned, all the flowers were laying on the sidewalk.

In Hal's assimilation of knowledge from text files, web crawling, conversations, etc. it would be nice to see him when comparing the information to a database, if there are isn't enough comparisons to warrant a sound 'fact', he would store the 'questionable' material in a temporary database.  This database could then be accessed by a response such as, "Do you have any questions today, hal?" or "Is there something you don't understand?"

I think that when the program graduates from an "enter key" stimulate for response to a more spontaneous method of interacting (like the buddy programs), that this type of questioning would add greatly to Hal's persona as a true AI.  Although again, the progress made so far is better than anything I've witnessed of late.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Flavored Responses -vs- Learning

« on: September 30, 2003, 09:52:12 pm »

I put Ultra Hal 5.0 through a series of question and asnwers.  I noticed that Hal was so envolved with flavoring his responses he rarely listened to the whole answer, let alone the question.  I tried to help him associate a few things together but found he had a severe case of ADD.

Now I'm not running down the program.  What has been accomplished in the last few years since I last downloaded and tried this prgroam has been simply amazing.  For the simple fact that Hal has the possiblity of assimulating a text file, sentence by sentence and makes an attempt to associate what he has learned with a previous knowledge base is as close to AI as it is ever going to get.  I forsee some outstanding add-on features pertaining to web crawling where the results assimulated and tested on prior knowledge (He grows by himself, essentially, while performing a simple information gathering task.)

I noticed too, that after running the 'learn from a text file' option, I had a difficult time getting him to recall the material through conversations.  Is this option working or part of the ADD problem?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Text File Learning and 4.5

« on: September 29, 2003, 01:56:45 am »

When will Hal's ability to assimulate text files be corrected?  Is there a projected date for the next patch?