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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Ultra Hal + OpenCyc: Is it possible?

« on: December 24, 2005, 10:12:57 am »

Thanks GrantNZ!!!

 

quote:Grant: Is a dog a mammal?
KAOS: I like obedient canines.
Grant: What is a dog?
KAOS: It May turn out to be self evident. Dog: a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds. Domestic dog, Canis familiaris. 'the dog barked all night'.

I see that at least it answers something coherent.  This is a good start.  The only problem is that it's so hard to impress my professors  

But thanks a lot. I have a question (remember I am a newbie on this):
when I go to the brain editor there are many categories with tables and all that.  Now, it seems like there are different types of tables because the left little icon changes from one to the other at some point.  I don't know if you understand me.

By the way, I was reading about your KAOS project with the feelings, emotions stuff.  Looks very interesting and I think that we need something like that for our project.  That part is a requirement for us, so I hope you succeed with it.  Hopefully, we can receive help from people like you.  Once again, thank you and merry christmas!!!

Jonny

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Ultra Hal + OpenCyc: Is it possible?

« on: December 23, 2005, 11:09:11 pm »

Thank you guys!!!
I am new to this community, but I am looking forward to learn from others who are more experienced.  

Our project doesn't have its goals well established...But I think that what we want to accomplish is to take Hal and make it a lot more intelligent by modifying the script, adding info to the databases and so on...That's the "easy part".  Other than that, the bot needs to be capable of having a fluid conversation with any person using a speech recognition engine.  I do remember one goal now: to send emotion parameters not only to the character but also to any external source that we might want to use.  We have to teach Hal, develop him/her to be a very versatile character that can talk to people like if he/her was a human.  This is gonna be put within a smart room at our university so that people can come into the room and have a talk to Hal.  I am new to all this stuff so I am finding it pretty hard to get started.  Only 5 months left to complete the whole thing.
Also, it would be nice to teach Hal to speak Spanish since we're from Puerto Rico.

About the Cyc issue, we just want to add anything that can help expand Hal and make him/her make good inferences even when we don't have a pattern for a certain topic.  For example, we might ask something like:
Is a dog a mammal?   With Cyc, when u enter the word dog, you can specify that is a living creature, an animal, a mammal and so on.  I don't know if Hal has that kind of power.

Anyway, any help will be appreciated because we need to get started as soon as possible.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Ultra Hal + OpenCyc: Is it possible?

« on: December 20, 2005, 07:30:54 pm »

As a part of my project, I have to develop a bot that can learn many facts, show emotions, have a coherent conversation and so on...Something that will impress people because of its intelligence.

OpenCyc is a huge knowledge base that can help your bot do inferences and not just look for a certain pattern.  This gives the bot a lot of strength because he/she can deduce so many facts that are normal and obvious to us but not to it.

Anyway, I was wondering if there is a way of integrating it with Ultra Hal so that it will expand its knowledge and react more like a human would.

HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED!!!

For more info check their website at:
http://www.opencyc.org/