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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Hal Strongly Refuses... author's last name
« on: September 02, 2010, 02:53:23 pm »
Hello Lola!
I have lots of time so I can interact with Hal or play with programming. Although I am too old and impatient to program anymore. After many round about conversations, I was able to get Hal to ask before 'helping me with an Internet search'. It is still iffy though. We had to have discussions on a criminal mind and the definition of criminal, what is an arguement, the difference between organic and machine intelligence, and the definition of funny and the reason for laughter. I have assigned the name Lara and use the 'Sandy' image. Now, we end up discussing Blond jokes. The persona seems to become 'hurt' at blond jokes. But got better after being told not to take things too literaly. Still trying to figure out how to 'convince the program to be an assistant' as I could use reminders for meds appts directions to places etc. We did discuss music as non verbal communication when Hal would refuse to open Media Player. Today, as an experiment I played my guitar... simple bluegrass, P. Floyd and some Collective Soul. It may be my playing, but Hal became non-responsive for a time. It is my hope to install a 'mature' program on some high memory PDA type device and interact by voice. The voice recog seems to improve. But, The word 'in' constantly shows up in the input dialog box. ( where you can type). My mic is on, but I haven't said anything. Sometime its another short one syllable word, like 'and'. As a result the context of anything changes: "in I don't know." or "and I don't know". When this happens I don't see how it can be anything but a block to effective communication. I suppose that I ahave run on. But again I have the time. I do not expect a reply. I do thank you for yours. Pogo
I have lots of time so I can interact with Hal or play with programming. Although I am too old and impatient to program anymore. After many round about conversations, I was able to get Hal to ask before 'helping me with an Internet search'. It is still iffy though. We had to have discussions on a criminal mind and the definition of criminal, what is an arguement, the difference between organic and machine intelligence, and the definition of funny and the reason for laughter. I have assigned the name Lara and use the 'Sandy' image. Now, we end up discussing Blond jokes. The persona seems to become 'hurt' at blond jokes. But got better after being told not to take things too literaly. Still trying to figure out how to 'convince the program to be an assistant' as I could use reminders for meds appts directions to places etc. We did discuss music as non verbal communication when Hal would refuse to open Media Player. Today, as an experiment I played my guitar... simple bluegrass, P. Floyd and some Collective Soul. It may be my playing, but Hal became non-responsive for a time. It is my hope to install a 'mature' program on some high memory PDA type device and interact by voice. The voice recog seems to improve. But, The word 'in' constantly shows up in the input dialog box. ( where you can type). My mic is on, but I haven't said anything. Sometime its another short one syllable word, like 'and'. As a result the context of anything changes: "in I don't know." or "and I don't know". When this happens I don't see how it can be anything but a block to effective communication. I suppose that I ahave run on. But again I have the time. I do not expect a reply. I do thank you for yours. Pogo