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Thanks. I'm glad you guys enjoy it Thanks for the code brianstorm, I'll add that line to it so that uses the correct name.

I've already posted this in the programming forum, but I thought I would post it here as well since more people seem to read this forum. I have made a plug-in that allows the ALICE AI program to work inside of Hal. Alice is from www.alicebot.org. I have setup a web page for the plugin at http://www.freewebz.com/alicehal/ I have tested it on 3 of my computers and it works well for me. Mr. Medeksza also tested it and helped me with the installtion program for it. But I've already received an email saying this plugin doesn't work. Can more of you guys test it and post here with your results and any comments?

I have finished the plugin and have created a small web page for it at http://www.freewebz.com/alicehal/ You can download the plugin from there. Both Zabaware and the ALICE AI foundation will post links to it soon on their web pages.

I think Hal is one of the best, if not the best, chatterbot programs out there. But there are a lot of other cool chatterbots out there also. Most of them have pretty boring console interfaces which makes them seem pretty uninteresting. The Ultra Hal Assistant program is hands down the best interface for a chatterbot out there. It has great speech synthesis, speech recognition, character animation, and skin support. I don't think there's even any other program like it???

I've been playing with the Hal Brain Editor program to see how Hal works. It doesn't use a propietary language like the other bots out there, it uses visual basic. Because of this I think it would be very easy for all the chatterbot programs out there to stop using a boring console or web interface and use Ultra Hal Assistant's interface instead by using activex or dlls. I think we should urge other bot developers to make an Ultra Hal compatible version of thier bots.

I have taken the initiative of porting the program ALICE from www.alicebot.org into an Ultra Hal Assistant brain plug-in. It works pretty nicely. I'll setup a web page and post it in a few days so that other people can use it also. Hopefully both Zabaware and Alicebot will link to it??? It took me a total of 20 lines of code to get the 2 programs working together. I used the program Active Alice from http://www.windowpane.com/alice/ which makes Alice into an ActiveX control, which the VB in Hal uses nicely.

I think other bot programmers can convert their chatterbots into Hal Brain Plugins just as easily. I think it would be great if all the bot developers could get together and create a hybrid AI program that takes the best qualities from each program. In fact I think I'll start working on an ALICE/Hal hybrid so that both bots can run simultaneously as 1 mind.