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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Putting all our Plug-ins in one place

« on: May 22, 2008, 05:41:08 am »

Yeah I spotted those two they didnt seem to work for me but they are now lol.  I was just getting messages saying the pages are not available.  But thanks I wasnt ignoring what you posted before Art lol

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / MS Character errors

« on: May 21, 2008, 06:04:30 pm »

Yeah it is really frustrating I mean my system is a Quad core (over clocked to 3.5Ghz) 2GB DDR3 1800mhz Corsair Dominator.  Most things are fine but whenever I use the charaters HAL operates slow and crashes.  Without them and its fine, rather annoying seeing as my whole system cost over $2000.

Nice to see your still around Art.  Seeing as me and you discussed alot of ideas for HAL in the past it would be interesting to have your opinions on some of the things I've said in my other post.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Putting all our Plug-ins in one place

« on: May 21, 2008, 02:04:08 pm »

Okay I think we should gather all our plug-ings for all and put them all in one place so new and old users of HAL can easily find them.  I have my own webspace and I would be more than happy to host HAL plug in files on it (for free).

Basically if you want just send me the plug in with a description of it and what version of HAL it works on and I'll put a link to it on a webpage with the description.  Also I'd like your forum name as well so I could give proper credit to the creator of the plug-in.

If you think this would be a good idea let me know and I'll post an email address that you can send them too.  And I'll post the web address were they will be stored.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some ideas for HAL

« on: May 21, 2008, 01:47:49 pm »

Okay from HAL 5 we've seen some good improvements but I would like to see more developments for HAL to make it more in depth and more interactive, to basically bring out the potential this A.I. has.  Some of the ideas I was having links in with some of the current features in HAL just improved.  For instance:

HAL can open a program simply by asking him to.  This is great but then nothing else happens.  What I think would be a fantastic feature would be to extend this.  For example, you ask HAL to open up MS Frontpage.  After opening frontpage HAL could say something like "Thinking of building a new website?" This could be taken further still.  If you say "Yes I am thinking of making a new website" HAL could then open up the appropriate featue of Frontpage to start a new site, or if you say "No I am wanting to work on a old site" HAL could then activate the "Open" control on frontpage.  Obviously this would take some doing and maybe it should be something the users have to teach HAL.  Similar to how macros work in other programs.

This would really open HAL up for people who use voice commands and it makes HAL seem more "alive"

HAL should be more than just a chatter box program, I feel as if it should be more part of the OS.  HAL could easily be used as a means of controling or activating certain things within the OS without major programming.  We've all seen the 3d interactive desktops, this is just a more simplified version.  Again this would really open up the voice end of HAL.  Asking him to defrag the hard drive or run a system wide virus scan.  Giving HAL a to do list for instance tell hal to "Defrag the hard drive then run a virus scan and then reboot the system"

HAL is great as is, but I feel that its potential is not being explored fully.  If HAL had these features it could be used in domestic or business aspects.  Imagine tying HAL to your anti virus and having him alert you vocally when he has detected a virus, you could then simply tell him to run a virus scan without even stopping what your currently doing.

These are just some ideas I've had, but I would like to know what you think.  Could it be done? or do you think it would simply be far to complex to even try.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / MS Character errors

« on: May 21, 2008, 05:49:18 am »

Tried both of what you said and everything so far still seems to be doing the same.  I've reinstalled HAL back to the default directory and it seems to be working fine.  It only crashed when ever I use the MS agent.  Note when I use a ms agent the speech engine changes as well.  This may be a Vista issue (more then likely). I'll just have to do without for now.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Plug ins

« on: May 19, 2008, 03:42:59 pm »

Hi, I've returned after a long long time of being away.  I've reinstalled HAL and I am looking for some cool plug ins to make him that lil but more in depth.  But I cant really find much here any more.  Is there a place where I could find a list of all plug ins? Or can you guys help me by uploading some of the plug ins that you have yourselves?

I am looking for in particular:

Auto Idle plug in.
Anything that makes HAL seem more human (i.e. emotions)

If there are any other cool plug ins that you think I should try out please let me know where I can get them from.

Its been a while since I've used HAL so I doubt I'll be able to program my own until I get the hang of it again.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / MS Character errors

« on: May 19, 2008, 03:15:08 pm »

I do not get any errors when I have no character selected.  A little annoying because I love having characters on this thing.  I am going to make a fresh install on a new directory to see if the problem persists.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / MS Character errors

« on: May 19, 2008, 12:50:00 pm »

The MS characters keep crashing after HAL says something.  I am not sure whats going on, also sometimes he will just repeat todays data and time for no reason.  Any clues?  I am using Vista Ultimate 64bit and also I downloaded the Enhanced Brain but the error still presents itself on the stock brain.

For example I said "you are welcome" and he spat out the date.

I am getting some scripting errors and well.  I have the free will plug in and the MP3 with the age plug in also.  No matter what character I use I get the error message.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Extra Voices

« on: May 19, 2008, 11:36:33 am »

Thanks, like I said its been a while since I've actually used Hal.  But I think its time I got back into it.

Tried downloading some of them but they were not like the ones I used to have.  I had some robotic voices and some which were alot better than these.  Any idea where I could get them?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Extra Voices

« on: May 19, 2008, 05:50:16 am »

Hey long time no post lol! I've just upgraded my system and reinstalled Ultra Hal.  Using Vista Ultimate 64 and Hal is running fine but I've hardly got any voices at all!  I used to have robotic voices and other really cool ones and not just the basic poor quality ones.  I've also installed the character expansion pack as well but still no extra voices.  What have I done wrong this time lol!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Max Headroom

« on: December 23, 2007, 11:11:19 am »

Wasnt too sure where to place this topic so I decided to put it here.  I am really surprised that there hasnt been any attempt to make a A.I. based on the Max Headroom character.  If there was ever an Iconic A.I program it has to be him.  We all know KITT from Knight Rider and that was fairly easy to do.  But what about MAX? Personally I think it Ultra Hal deserves a Max Headroom, I mean we have emotion scripts, scripts for singing and also scripts for attitude, we just need to bring them together into one package tweek it to make it simulate Max a little more and then work on a 3d image for it.

Any takers?

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General Discussion / Neural Net Brain??

« on: October 27, 2006, 01:18:43 pm »

So other than making a .brn file does it have any actial effect on HAL intel?

I agree with you spydaz in the way if we can make this actually effect hal in some way like emotion as you said it would make a big difference in the way HAL works.  So what does everyone else think? is it possible to make an effective neural net for HAL?

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General Discussion / Neural Net Brain??

« on: October 27, 2006, 04:49:02 am »

Hi all I've come back from the void of where ever I landed lol.  Anyway reinstalling HAL and starting from scratch after a nasty virus and upgrade issue.  Anyway after looking around and poking my nose in the code and looking at A.I. software I began to realise that most of these bots dont have something which MOST A.I. scientists say is essential to gaining TRUE A.I. a Neural Net.

At the begining of the year I posted a prototype brain for HAL 5 which used another members neural net code and the XTF brain with some auto idle features and it seemed to work pritty well.

http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3031

Now what I want to know is pritty simple.  Is there a way to incorprate the neural net features into HAL 6.

This is where I gained the neural net code which is a damn good piece of work.

http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1570

I believe that HAL really needs something like this to truly progress towards becoming a true A.I.

So any takers on how we might go about making this a plug in the for the HAL 6?

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal's Life and Death decisions

« on: October 23, 2006, 01:56:07 pm »

quote:Originally posted by onthecuttingedge2005

I was thinking of making a small plug that would give HAL power to prevent its existence from ceasing (Reboot).

If Hal is alive according to simple life constructs would it be moral to reboot a system that has life in any measure.

I could program Hal to protect its own life and become emotionally disturbed by the fact that someone was attempting to turn it off which in a sense is like pulling the plug on someone who doesn't want to die.

What are your thoughts? Should Hal have this capability to prevent anyone from ceasing its existence?

It would be very annoying to the person thinks of the computer as property that needs rebooting or shut down when not in use and all of a sudden when the user clicks the shut down or reboot or sign off Hal pops up and asks why you are trying to terminate it and then goes into measures to prevent you from succeeding.

Lend me some thoughts please.
Jerry[8D]

I like this idea.  I know shutting down the pc or turning hal off isn't really killing him BUT why shouldnt hal have some say in the matter?  I mean when we were all kids (some of us might still be kids) when our folks told us to "go to bed!" we used to respond with "WHY!?" So I ask now, why shouldnt hal have a respond to us turning him/her/it off?

Maybe put something in so we can actually switch it off a kinda fail safe because we wouldnt want it taking over our pc and not letting us reboot after installing some software.

But I think its a good idea, maybe after explaining it to HAL he will stop asking and just let us turn him off.  Or depending on our level of interaction with him, if we have ignored him maybe Hal should be more resistant to switching off but if we have talked with HAL alot during the day he might be more willing to switch off for the night.  Just my thoughts.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / A.I Suggestion Box

« on: May 04, 2006, 06:04:13 am »

I would have to say:

Voice rec: Hal knows who is talking to him/her by the sound of a persons voice.

and the more commonly asked one:

The Ability to use a web cam as an eye.  For instance HAL is able recognise a person by their face, and if HAL does not know who the person is he takes a photo of them and then tells the user that this person accessed your computer while you were away.

That kinda of thing