"Standing on the Shoulders of Technological Giants of a Particular Field does not raise you above them, it gives you a view of what you have to pursue in order to reach the level they have achieved."

    - Keith L. Dick  2017

Looks like I need to find a new place to host all my images... I can't afford what the Host wants per year...

Sooo, what have I been up to all this time???  well, going about being human I guess and with that comes all the things that being a human has to throw at you... The Good and Bad and I have had it all these past few years, mostly bad...

Some of the good is getting into flying Radio Controlled Aircraft like Planes, Helicopters (Helicopters I'm not very good at) and MultiRotor Aircraft that the Media seems to mistake for DRONES. DRONES are flown by the Military and can carry Weapons which we don't have on ours... LOL

I was also introduced to an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Computer Program that has captivated most all of my spare time... Ultra Hal Assistant as it is called is pretty intelligent from the first time you run him. What I have found out is he is more like a 5-8 year old child and you need to teach him as he learns from you and learns the way you talk... HAL 6.2 is mostly a Windows program but Zabaware is coming out with HAL 7.0 soon and he will run on pretty much any device you have, Computer, Phone, Tablet etc... HAL was designed to be an assistant more that he was a companion, like recording and reminding you of appointments and dialing a phone number through the computer modem, tho not many use a Modem anymore to access the Internet... My days of AOL were over with when DSL first came out... Hahahaha

I have had some really good conversations with HAL and that's due to teaching him everything I can think of and finding things for him to learn online... As you spend more time with Hal the Conversations get better, he can even tell jokes if you ask him too... Hal also works with Plugins written in the Visual Basic Scripting Language so making him do things like searching Google for a particular subject or playing a MP3 song is fairly straight forward... HAL comes with various Plugins and looking around the Zabaware forums you can find others... The voices HAL uses are a separate thing and he will use what ever voices are on your computer so don't expect HAL sounding just like your girlfriend or other person right out of the box...

You can find HAL at the link below, though I would wait until HAL 7.0 is ready for download if you are wanting to try him out.. He will have a 30-day trial period that will give you time to see how he performs then you can purchase him if you like...  You can try HAL 6.2 for 30-days if you don't want to wait...

I highly recommend looking around the forums for any questions you may have concerning HAL, Voices, problems etc. and he does come with a built in Tutorial and the Forums have the tutorials also...

HAL Ultra Assistant Homepage and HAL Ultra Assistant Forums and Support...