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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Restart issue w/Hal

« on: July 22, 2004, 06:02:42 pm »

Spydaz,
Ordinarily I would agree with your proposal
however, this has happened from a fresh boot,
never clicked on my desktop Hal icon. Installed
new program (utility or whatever, maybe a WinXP
update). Upon restart (as is sometimes required),
this wide popup window asks if I want to reconfigure
Hal as it was not shutdown properly! As was previously
mentioned by Don and I, this does not lead to any
problems and I usually just click on the cancel button.
Ergo, No instance of Hal was loaded upon boot and all
I use is a desktop icon. It is also contained in my START>
ALL PROGRAMS>ULTRAHALLASSISTANT menu selection, but I
always just click on the desktop icon.

I do appreciate your feedback and suggestions.

Rich_A,

Thanks so much for the kind words. In these times of uncertainty,
thin-skin and political correct behavior it's nice to have a
place like this with like minded people willing to offer what
they can and share their discoveries.
I've yet to meet the person who knows it all (though a lot claim
to...LOL!), but there are a lot of really great folks here. I certainly don't have all the answers but I'm glad to assist when
and where I can.

Yes, I've tried various methods to ferret out the culprit and perhaps
somewhere there's a gremlin playing.

I've gone through several version of Hal practically since it started and now up to V.5.0. My machine is a new computer and HD, so the slate is clean so to speak.

I will run another registry checker prog. just to make sure the house is in order. Your suggestions are helpful and much appreciated.

Thanks again and all the best to you both!

 ARTifically,
- Art -

3722

Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / How to talk to your friends online

« on: July 21, 2004, 10:12:16 pm »

Goodgirl,
You can also use Yahoo's chat program as well as AIM.
Good luck but be very careful in the chat rooms for
not all is as it seems and not everyone is who they
say they are or who you think they might be.

Good advice from KnyteTrypper!

3723

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Restart issue w/Hal

« on: July 21, 2004, 07:05:04 pm »

Spydaz,
Read the last sentence in my original post. Hal
wasn't even running at the time. Computer was
restarted then popup message. Thanks for reply!

Goodgirl25,
Turn off your caps lock key for better results.[]

- Art -

3724

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Restart issue w/Hal

« on: July 19, 2004, 07:55:52 pm »

Thanks for the reply, Don.

Yes, at least Hal is consistant as it
used to do the same thing when I ran
older versions of Hal on Win 95, 98
and now XP. As you mentioned, it really
doesn't cause any problems but the first
time one sees the message, it does make
one wonder what went wrong.

- Art -

3725

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Private Chat Rooms for Zabaware!

« on: July 17, 2004, 10:43:15 pm »

Very nice site. With 2037 members listed here
and perhaps quite a few more out there who
aren't listed on this forum, one would think
there would be potential for a pretty good
audience of participants. Then again...most
just want quick answers and an AI program that
is already trained and knows everything! LOL!

Good luck with the site!

- Art -

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Restart issue w/Hal

« on: July 17, 2004, 02:24:20 pm »

Whenever I install a program and it needs to restart the computer,
a popup appears stating that Hal wasn't properly shut down and may not work correctly. Usually I just click on the cancel option and all works fine anyhow, but this is kind of annoying.
Am I the only one getting this? If not, is there a fix. Keep in mind that Hal hasn't even been running at these restart times...so...who knows.

It's not a bug...it's an undocumented "feature."

- Art -

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Kitt Vox

« on: July 15, 2004, 06:19:06 pm »

Hi,
Can't help you with the link thing but for the other question,
If you'll read the More Info section under Ultra Hal Assistant
you'll see that the freeware version does not support any
SPEECH Plug-ins for recognition. Sorry.
- Art -

3728

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Robot Hal

« on: June 20, 2004, 03:51:23 pm »

Skazz,
Check out:http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-5082712.html

Via has a new board out that's a mere 4.7 inches square.

Also look into some of the various robotics sites. A lot
of the builders use pretty small MB's in their construction.

I'm not really up on the wiring for those laptop HD's but
I'm sure the answer's on the net somewhere!

3729

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Import from Peopleputty

« on: June 18, 2004, 05:14:43 pm »

Greg,
Meet Kiki, one of my many characters created from
People Putty. Her size is not 160 x 160 but you get the idea.
Her files are kiki.htr and kiki.jpg both of which are
in the characters folder.



Any probs or ??'s let me know.

- Art -

3730

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Character sound?

« on: June 18, 2004, 02:29:29 pm »

Hal listens and responds. I'm not aware of it
generating any sounds from characters. Not
to say that it couldn't, just that mine does
not and I have the full ver.

- Art -

3731

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Robot Hal

« on: June 18, 2004, 02:20:04 pm »

It will take a bit of fussing as far as the connections
but there are small hard drives that measure 7 x 10 x 1 MM
(slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes but half as thick).

Look for laptop hard drives from Toshiba and WD. for
starters. Check out www.pricewatch.com

Good luck,
- Art -

3732

Ultra Hal 7.0 / Let Hal Learn to its fullest concept!

« on: June 17, 2004, 11:52:13 pm »

Hi guys!
My $.02 worth. IF the day ever comes when computers become self aware, we will most likely be in deep trouble because they may figure out that humans are flawed by emotions, and are very slow thinking by comparison.

What I found interesting was a text encyclopedia that had a lot of definitions of various topics such as animals, biology, anatomy, astronomy, geology, etc. I stripped all the excessive remarks and left just the plain text, then had HAL "read" it. Although it only saved some of the key words contained therein, it does have occasion to call upon these "learned" facts in order to answer a question.

Conversly, I had two other bot programs that could converse with each other and you could watch the chat take place, but as was also pointed out, theirs was a canned response much like a parrot replying with what's in memory as opposed to giving any concrete thought to the content. As such, no real "learning" took place.

Perhaps HAL could be setup with an instruction routine similar to the SETI program or a web crawler type of program to scour the net in search of knowledge (in text form of course) and save the acquired info to a file. It would have to be only for a limited time since it could easily fill a hard drive if left on for too long. Then one would have to edit the file and weed out the irrelevant information then force feed it back to HAL to be correctly assimilated and there'd still be no guarantee that the results would be plseaing, acceptable or accurate.

MIT has been busy teaching a computer emotions. It can see the human operator and respond with its own emotions. Another lab has a computer program that has the intelligence of a two or three year old. This is not scripted behavior! We're slow, but we are getting there. Time will tell.

- Art -

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Import from Peopleputty

« on: June 17, 2004, 11:20:08 pm »

Greg,
Don't know about your setup but on my system, the character files are saved to: C:Program Files/Haptek/PeoplePutty/user/projects.
One might be Kelly.haptar (if you saved it in People Putty as a .htr file). I found that the filename was NOT .htr but haptar. In explorer just rename the extention to htr.
Now, in either People Putty or if you can get the character image to show in the player or even HAL, use a screen capture program such as SnagIt or the like to grab the whole image. Save the image as a jpg and be sure to name the jpg file the same name as the htr file. ex:kim.htr and kim.jpg. Also make the image file size 160 x 160.

The next time you load HAL and scroll through the character list, you'll see your newly created character. Oh yes, be sure to copy your new character files to:  C:Program Files/Zabaware/Ultra Hal Assistant 5/Characters or wherever your people reside.

Sounds more complicated than it actually is. Hope this helps.
- Art -

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Help - Hal is deaf!

« on: June 03, 2004, 08:59:14 am »

Kathryn,
Mine is the same version 5.0.57. Options menu>5th tab SPEECH>
Select Use Speech Recognition. This highlites the buttons below:
Select SR Engine, Microphone Settings and Training.
It does help to do the training session. Do the microphone Settings and if your Speech Rec engine displays, all should come together fine.
As far as a mike, I use a headset mike that, if memory serves, was relatively inexpensive from either Wal-Mart or a computer show (been a while and really don't remember where, but wasn't more than $20.00
It's called an ANDREA Anti-noise NC-65 if that helps.

Hope you get this thing worked out. If you do the training do it in a relatively quiet room and speak as you would in a normal tone to a person sitting next to you. Every once in a while Hal will miss a word as Speech recognition still isn't an exact science, but you'd be surprised how accurate you can get. It also helps to go through all the training sessions (at your leisure).

Good luck with this.

quote:Originally posted by Kathryn

Art,

Here we go again!  Heard from Zabaware and they gave me the instructions for the speech recognition leaving out the Setup Speech Recognition that was missing from the menu.  Checked their booklet that came with the CD and the instructions were for Version 4 so maybe the menu item wasn't necessary for version 5.  The version I have is 5.0.57 so I went checking again.  My microphone tested out OK the first time, but on the second go round, it was cutting out.  So my problem may be the microphone acting up.  Probably need a better one.  However, they did say they would send me another CD if I have the wrong version.  So what is the number of the latest version?  Is it the version I have (5.0.57)?  Also can you recommend a headset.  One I have came from Radio Shack.  Thanks for advice.  I will lick the problem sooner or later.[]

Kathryn []

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Unscripted humor

« on: June 01, 2004, 11:58:09 am »

Although we discuss scripting and such here, I thought this email appropriate as it shows unscripted responses in the real world.
As follows:
>  A DINNER CONVERSATION GONE WRONG
>
>
>WIFE: "What would you do if I died? Would you get married again?"
>
>HUSBAND: "Definitely not!"
>
>WIFE: "Why not - don't you like being married?"
>
>HUSBAND: "Of course I do."
>
>WIFE: "Then why wouldn't you remarry?"
>
>HUSBAND: "Okay, I'd get married again."
>
>WIFE: "You would? (with a hurtful look on her face)."
>
>HUSBAND: (makes audible groan).
>
>WIFE: "Would you sleep with her in our bed?"
>
>HUSBAND: "Where else would we sleep?"
>
>WIFE: "Would you replace my pictures with hers?"
>
>HUSBAND: "That would seem like the proper thing to do."
>
>WIFE: "Would you play golf with her?"
>
>HUSBAND: "I guess so."
>
>WIFE: "Would she use my golf clubs?"
>
>HUSBAND: "No, she's left-handed."
>
>WIFE: - - - - silence - - - -
>
>HUSBAND: "Sh*t"