Skynet here we come. Let's hope it likes humans.

Sounds interesting. Do you have any links where we can talk to the Google one please Art?

Looks really interesting, I've heard it lacks physics.
Carl2

I get you, Freddy.

One sticking point with me and this Hal/Hybrid are that conversationally and topically it is head and shoulders above what we had in the past but the real deal-breaker, aside from being cloud-based is the fact that it (the GPT-3 platform + Hal does not let or allow for the conversational data to be retained in a database as the previous Hal did. It will not know that you spoke about locomotives, race cars, Electric Vehicles, Bob the Weatherman, or gold-plated widgets. It will retain nothing from previous conversations and given the fact that the vast majority of humans that I know (but not all) are able to do this, Hybrid Hal should be able to do this.

Otherwise, it is only capable of conducting a fairly decent conversation for the moment.

Sadly, there is (as you mentioned) a cost for having this conversation. The cost is to the vendor, Robert/Zabaware and that cost has to get passed on to the Users, which is really quite reasonable given the quality of the conversation but just how many people would be willing to pay for having such an exchange? They have already purchased UltraHal once and now they will have to pay so much for using it. I honestly don't think it is going to go over very well.

While I realize that research and access cost money, I just don't see a future in such a niche market.

Looks pretty interesting biggest  problem for me is I buy it and still have to keep making a vendor fee.
Also I'm pretty interested in the characters and I wish more work was put into that.  We had a lot of good things going on and all that will be lost.  There is a lot on the GPT3 and it may be possible to get Hal to learn, in the description it says the GPT3 is learning.  Sometimes it is best to just wait and see new developments.
Carl2

I lost something I put in earlier, the GPT3 has huge amounts of data the computer has to go through so you may need a quick computer to go through the data, people really into it may use multiple computers.  I tried to download GPT3 but only found sites selling it, a free version may be available in the future. I found the GPT3 can create a file and write to it.  Here is a video some of the thing it can do   

Carl2

GPT was first released in 2018 then GPT-2 in 2019 and GPT-3 in 2020.

Are we due to see the release of GPT-4 in 2021?

As nicely as GPT-3 performs and is able to interact, I imagine GPT-4 would be simply amazing and unable to distinguish its content and context from that of a human.

Just speculating...