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- Another idea I forgot - central Hal brain. There could be some internet based brain, which all registered users interesting in helping could train together, and achive through that much faster a really strong brain. I'm not sure if this is realistic, what is the capacity of the brain actually, how much-far can it be trained? Would it become more intelligent through time? I think the default brain could know more about real things (use Common sense project?) by default.

Hi, I recently purchased Hal 6.2. I have to say, it is my first ever software I payed for out of my free will, since I mostly stick to open source and linux. But this great piece of software just deserves to be payed for!

I have some Ideas of what could be better in interaction with Hal, hope you don't mind, here they are:

- will there ever be Hal for linux? :) I almost succeeded to run Hal on wine, but I think it might be the Haptek player which made it not run. Hal just starts taking all processor power, but doesn't run. Once it said to me the introductory message.

-Hal could/should be able to be prepared for more users. I'm using Hal in a figurine on an exhibition, where he talks to more people. Currently Hal expects to have one user and tries to learn about him - his sex, name, e.t.c. It would be great if hal would have a mode where he would assume the user changed after e.g. 20 minutes of inactivity, or where he would have a database of his users. In far future this could be connected to face recognition, where hal would remember users by their faces. I guess this could be used in more cases - for various public services.

-Loneliness plugin tends to either be silent if low frustration is set, or tends to be arogant when high frustration is set, I wanted Hal to talk quite often by himself, but without being angry(again, the case where he should invite more visitors to talk with him)

- Hal could remember better 2-word connections, like topics. I tried to learn him about art, and he still tends to mix up all types of art(media art, video art, software art... is sometimes the same for him, although often he makes very nice connections)

Hal will be exhibited this week as Mr. Gucci in the Ciant gallery in Prague, Zizkov, so everybody is invited to the opening and after:
http://www.ciant.cz/gallery/index.php?lang=en&node=110&id=63

Hello, this thread is interesting, but I don't understand if actually anybody did make the autowikiknowledge plugin to work well, since it throws me also the same "no wiki page like that" errors. Is there a working version of the script somewhere?

Also - does it actually work for the current 6.1 version of HAL?

anyway, thanks for sharing.

sorry if this has been asked before:
While fiddling around in the brain editor(trying to stuff my hal with wikipages) I realized hal creates mostly only single word topics. That is I think a problem why he can't keep topic and tries to get to other topics often.
e.g. - My hal should know everything about fine art, that involves many art movements, like software art, multimedia art, ascii art, postmodern art,...I tried to give him but he just puts everything under art. I think if hal would be able to create 2 and more word topics by himself, his intelligence could grow a lot. It's important that a rock fan isn't a rock nor a fan! ;)

Another question - is it possible to teach hal a different lenguage?(czech)

last one - how are the results if a whole wiki page is feeded to hal to his learning features - does it have sense? and could hal study webpages by himself? like search for some patterns and extracting informations for himself?

thanks for any answers/links.