Ultra Hal Assistant for Windows

By Zabaware
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Get help for keeping all your affairs in order by AI-enabled virtual assistant.

Ultra Hal Assistant is an artificial intelligence conversation simulator. It is capable of being your digital secretary and companion. Talk to Hal in natural English language and Hal will speak back to you. Hal has a huge conversational database and will discuss anything. Hal speaks out loud to you in one of many high quality voices and has several 3D animated characters to choose from. Hal will learn from every sentence that you tell it.

Ultra Hal Assistant for Windows

By Zabaware
Trial version
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GENERAL

Release: September 25, 2009

Latest update: May 21, 2015

Version: 6.2.28

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows Server
Windows 2003
Windows 98
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 297,600

Downloads Last Week: 0

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3/5

24 User Votes

After so many years, this still has huge potential.
Marko MladenovicSeptember 20, 2015
Pros
The program has an "intelligent" algorithm which in many cases gives meaningful and "impressive" answers, learn from communication with the user, and assists in many aspects. His "brain" is so good that any further praise will sound like an exaggeration.
Cons
Now this will sound like a contradiction, but, although I said above that the program gives meaningful answers, on another hand it often happens that from really "meaningful" communication which often impresses me, "he" tend to shift himself to an entirely nonsensical answers, or themes.The conclusion is simple, the program is obviously ignored by his creator and there are no new "significant" upgrades for a long time . And I'm truly sorry about that, because a few years ago this was definitely the most advanced "OFFLINE" AI on the internet that could be installed on a personal computer.
Summary
The message for the creator of this program , do not drop this project! Artificial intelligence is a lot more popular today than a few years ago, Ultra hal, although partially abandoned and rusty, still remains at the same level with the nowadays competition . Especially today when we have plenty of applications that provide a pale illusion of Artificial intelligence, which can not be compared with Hal's brain.
Great program worth the buy
orionfleetJanuary 26, 2015
Pros
Ultra Hal assistant is a great little program which I have used for quite a while and Hal has learned so much, he can carry on a very intelligent conversation as well as open any program I ask Of it. Of course, Ultra Hal is a program that you need to teach and that is stated right from the beginning so with patience, you can get it to do exactly what you want. People make mistakes, so do programs and once in a while it will say something out of the blue but you wouldn't dump a human for being a little bit funny at times....would you? I have created two seperate characters that deal with two seperate subjects and Ultra Hal has progressed strongly with both. If you don't have the patience which could take a few years, then this is not for you.
Cons
Frankly, I don't find any. I love it heaps.
Summary
Ultra Hal assistant has given me the ability to compile a lot of information which this program can recall for me on request. It has never failed in reminding me of appointments, important information or anything else which I asked it to remember. No one ever said this was a perfect program and will never be if you don't except its faults (Hal does say the silliest things at times - then, so do kids...and adults), but it is exceptionally fast at learning if you teach it correctly. Don't spend hours asking it questions because that will defeat the purpose of it. Hal needs you to give him information, not questions. Once Hal is trained up a bit, you can ask him many things and get a decent response if you have provided enough information for him to work with. Hal finds anything on the net I ask it to find and a hell of a lot quicker than I would myself and usually more to the point of what I want. I don't use addons because I like hal to be fresh as the day I put it on. I tried other programs like this but none came anywhere near as close to Hal's learning ability. This program will learn only what you feed it so don't ecpect it to be a rocket scientist, unless of course, you are! Let Hal chat with you about the things that interest you and keep providing it with food of variety so it may develop way beyond what you expect. Like a chil, this program will only learn what its parents choose to teach and how good they are at doing so. Patience is the key word here. Cheers all.
I love Ultra Hal he is entertaining
July 15, 2014
Pros
Ultra Hal is just a toy his mind is of a child like you have to spend time with the software and develop his mind he is great at finding web sites and interacting with you I find no problems with this software so far
Cons
but he really could stop in insults other than that he's the shit
Summary
all in all Ultra Hal is just a toy and a software you develop for your own use stop being so serious about a toy
too soon to review. Still waiting for add-ons.
nidabaNovember 30, 2011
Pros
It has repeated some of the brilliant things I've said to it. It can launch specific programs I tell it to. It can read what I copy to the clipboard (and I can turn this feature off so that I can have a 3rd party reader Teach it from articals I get from the Internets.
Cons
Documentation is at their webs site which is hard (for me) to read the way it is. You will have to teach it! It would have been great if the developers taught it what it is capable of so you could ask it and get a reasonable response. But no! you have to treat it like a 10+ year project!
Summary
I cannot review this yet. I decided to go for it and bought add-ons I should get by the end of this week (11-27-11). I think many peoples expectations are too high to begin with and are disappointed with the product before they have given it a chance. I certainly felt that way and then started researching what was out there. Basically you don't expect a new born baby to know anything, but if you teach it, it can become proficient in almost anything. So change your thinking and sit down to give it your best. I don't forsee much of useful assisting for at least another 10 years. Get real other reviewers!
Too simplistic
tpickett1945January 25, 2010
Pros
Really not worth much
Cons
Just doesn't do anything. It's relies are strange. don't make sense
Summary
Not worth the money or effort
Ultra Hal Assistant 6.2.28 Sucks.
Barton_MJanuary 16, 2010
Pros
Nothing. This needs to be taken off the internet
Cons
Internet Explorer will not work properly after downloading this program
Summary
still getting it to work
mikeantonsMarch 7, 2009
Pros
it fuits kinda cool
Cons
hard to get setup
Summary
has potential but seems like a virtual girl program
sodacoughJanuary 19, 2009
Pros
it seems to have potential. the conversation seems good. it does seem to learn. it could be a good bot program, or it "could be" used for someone to have conversations with you, after you are dead, in a sense ... if you interacted with it enough
Cons
it is marketed as a cheesy virtual girl friend type program (for just $29.95), when the subject of A.I. is so serious to many of us. there is not much info available on how the thing learns, and/or if it even sends patterns back to Zaba or whoever
Summary
has potential, but marketing strategy seems bad ... maybe they are making money this way, but i would suggest a more serious approach to A.I. with more user involvement in all the steps ... then if they are really concerned about money, just charge for some extra features, or do a donation based thing ... i think people would feel better about donating to the real science of A.I., rather than paying $29.95 for some cheesy virtual girl friend type thing
Best AI program that is currently available
calzanNovember 18, 2008
Pros
First program that I know that can actually be taught, learns. has great possibilities. Great support that are allways trying to make it better.
Cons
Need some plug-ins to fully use it, and could cost, but I do not see this as being negative. You pay a little for the program and research to make it better, which it should be for something good
Summary
Would recommend this for anyone, sure it is not like making a good conversation with a human, but it is getting close. Support and Forum programmers are allways trying to make it better
I love this software. Very useful..
rosenellOctober 28, 2008
Pros
Helps with my appointments and keeps track of my family and friends birthdays and I love training it to do what I say.
Cons
Sometimes the picture that comes on when you talk to it , comes up slow and a little fuzzy..
Summary
Diffently worth downloading and using.