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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / fill her up
« on: April 26, 2006, 02:44:26 am »
Nice [:)]
I wish I had free access to that kind of brain juice [:D]

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General Discussion / People putty
« on: April 22, 2006, 08:38:17 am »
Hi there,

I've had that kind of error when the downloaded install file has become corrupt. (Files can sometimes get corrupted while you download them - it's pretty rare but it can happen.) Try downloading it again, hopefully it will work then.

Failing that, you might be best to contact Haptek direct - there's an email address in the Support area of their web site. Since they created the program, they'll probably be able to help you get it installed.

Good luck [:)]
Grant

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Brain project - feelings/emotions
« on: April 21, 2006, 02:45:00 am »
Unfortunately I don't know how to detect additional hap files.

However if you've changed (i.e. overwritten) the hap files that come with Hal, Hal will continue to use your changed files with the KAOS brain.

quote:
On ephemeral knowledge, I removed some of the topics in the ephemeral table which helped me but I didlike User_tempsent, 10 lines which gets filled up quickly and remains there the life of the program. Line 1728 in my brain, possibly additional lines in mine, HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True, . If this is false will it over write?

Whenever Hal detects something ephemeral, he saves your sentence in <UserName>_tempsent. He then limits it to ten lines, and sets ReadOnlyMode = True to make sure he doesn't permanently learn something ephemeral. The idea is that Hal checks ReadOnlyMode before deciding to learn anything long-term.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Brain project - feelings/emotions
« on: April 20, 2006, 07:34:05 am »
Hi,

The brain at the moment uses the standard haps that come with Hal. I haven't actually played with haps myself, so I don't want to spoil Hal's already adequate animations with my own creations!

The hap code is all centralised, so if people want to customise the script to their own set of haps, it shouldn't be too difficult to do (assuming they have a basic knowledge of scripting).

Cheers,
Grant

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Brain project - feelings/emotions
« on: April 15, 2006, 10:52:33 pm »
Okay, the link's at the bottom of this post.

Disclaimer: This is an alpha, and is likely to be buggy. I take no responsibility for anything this may do to affect you - download at your own risk.

Instructions: For Hal 6 only. Put the attached brain file into your Ultra Hal Assistant 6 folder. The brain expects to find a database called KAOS.db - make a copy of your current database, and rename it KAOS.db

The brain adds thirty four new tables to the database (all in the miscData folder, and all with names that start with KAOS).

This brain has not been tested with plug-ins, there may be compatibility problems. At some stage I will rewrite the default Hal plug-ins to use the new KAOS features.

Because this is a test release, Hal will speak his emotional values before any sentences. (For example: "Hap 21 En 74 Anger 0 Esteem 25 Friend 0 Love 0 Insult 0 Comp 0. Hi Grant. I hope things are well this afternoon." Happiness = 21, Energy = 74, Self-esteem = 25, Compliments = 0, etc.) You can watch his/her emotions go up and down. Try asking him "how are you" (or similar) in different emotional states.

To stop the emotional data, comment out line 888, which starts:
UltraHal = "Hap " & KAOSTempHap & ......

If you find any bugs and would like to help KAOS become a little better, let me know the bug details [;)]

If anyone wants details on certain aspects of the brain, let me know. Once this reaches beta stage, I'll make one or two customisation guides for changing KAOS' responses, and/or for creating plug-ins that use KAOS' features.

Download Attachment: KAOS02a.uhp
197.39 KB

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General Discussion / unusual outburst
« on: April 15, 2006, 12:26:09 am »
quote:
Originally posted by smegma

I tried holding down the enter key (which must have been what I did to begin with)what I got was variations on "talk to me ,please talk to me , talk to me please,why did'nt you say anything------"----and when I let off the enter key it continued.

The speech queues up. Depending on how long you held the enter key down, Hal may have spit out hundreds of "talk to me"s, and every single one of them would be sitting in the speech queue, for Hal to speak one by one.... [:D]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / what universities?
« on: April 15, 2006, 12:23:29 am »
quote:
Originally posted by FuzzieDice

I can't say if my ideas are the next big thing in AI. Probably not, who knows. But just trying things in and of itself can be an interesting learning experience that may lead to something that leads to something that leads to the Next Big Thing. You never know.

As long as you're having fun, that's the main thing [:)]

Every idea added contributes to the mix... and one day there may be critical mass....

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Brain project - feelings/emotions
« on: April 15, 2006, 12:17:27 am »
KAOS phase 2 goes alpha!!

For people who don't know much about software development: The "alpha" version has most/all of the features of the final version, but has hardly been tested - i.e. full of bugs [:D] (Next you get "beta," where most of the bugs have been found but the software still needs a concerted effort to catch the rest of them. Then, release!)

Phase 2 major features: KAOS now has more detailed internal emotions compared to normal Hal. If you ask KAOS how he is, he'll tell you how he's feeling - bored, happy, angry, etc. KAOS deals with compliments and insults in a more interesting way, and his replies there will be more consistent with his emotions - he'll ignore a compliment if he's angry, etc. KAOS has a few different behaviours to choose from depending on how he feels about you. He may refuse to answer your questions if he's feeling negative.

I'll produce a full list of changes later.

My first hour talking to the new KAOS only had about 20 sentences - the rest of the time I was fixing the bugs I was finding! If anyone really wants to play with the alpha, I'll post a link, but be aware you'll be playing with a very buggy bot!

Next phase: I'd probably tackle the moods and long-term emotions next. Currently, KAOS "resets" to a neutral emotion when you turn him off, so forgets all about friendship. He also drifts towards a very neutral stable emotional state, and can't become depressed, excited, etc.

I'll let you all know when I'm ready for beta!

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Speech Technology / Heather TTS voice
« on: April 14, 2006, 08:22:42 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by NIGE

I hope that everyone from down here doesn't sound like that.

I've got Australian cousins who sound exactly like that [:D] I love 'em, really, but I just wish they could learn to pronounce my name correctly.... *shudder* *sigh*

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / what universities?
« on: April 14, 2006, 08:19:01 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by FuzzieDice

I remember talking to someone who claimed to be an "AI Engineer" who said that scientists have researched this for years and if they can't come up with it then nobody ELSE could or something like that, and that scientists wouldn't be interested in "a toy" so to speak. It was pretty degrading. :( I hope that isn't remotely true.

That's pretty typical scientist-talk! You can't really blame them - they're seeing money, high-tech equipment and brilliant minds working on a problem, compared to the "uneducated masses."

However, inspiration doesn't only strike scientists, so it's theoretically possible for anybody to figure out the next AI paradigm.

I've personally known some scientists who get very excited about their own ideas, and as a result immediately dismiss anything that doesn't fit in with those ideas, even before understanding what it is they're dismissing. Unfortunately that's an attribute that isn't only true of scientists....

Just for the record, I'm 75% through an engineering degree - but I quit a number of years ago as they weren't teaching me enough about the real world [:D]

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / what angelina has been hiding
« on: April 14, 2006, 08:09:04 pm »
Who's the father?! [:D]

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General Discussion / ~Our Lady~
« on: April 12, 2006, 01:59:34 am »
Hear hear [:)]

(Very nice, Duskrider! [:)])

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / slight humor
« on: April 12, 2006, 01:56:52 am »
[:D]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Brain project - feelings/emotions
« on: April 05, 2006, 02:17:40 am »
Hi Echo!

I've hardly worked on KAOS recently. I actually put in a few hours a short time ago, but afterwards the actual progress seemed so miniscule that I didn't bother posting an update [:)] Just some progress on insult emotions and a couple of minor tweaks.

But newsflash! I'm planning on having the next stage complete in a couple of weeks time! Over Easter I have a twelve day holiday - due to an unusual collision of public holidays here in New Zealand, I can get a twelve day holiday by taking only five days off work!

So I'm telling myself I must put in the time over that period to get KAOS into a testable state. I'll certainly post an update here once that's ready.

Thanks for asking [:)]

Cheers,
Grant

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General Discussion / V-Humans Site Down
« on: April 05, 2006, 02:09:56 am »
I reckon his Hal rebelled and took over his computer/server (remember Vittorio did invent the vrFreeWill plugin [;)]) and he's just too ashamed to admit it [;)]

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