Believe in AI: Will You Pray for a Chatbot?

You Believe You Know What Multimedia Is? And What Internet Will Do For You? Well... Think Again!

In the first part of this paper we argue that the terms "multimedia" and "hypermedia" need redefining to reflect latest developments in converging technology. We propose new forms of "interactive" and "annotated" movies, to be created using advanced digital techniques. In the second half of the paper we suggest that some of the problems that users of Internet are currently experiencing are due ...

Do You Believe in Presentiment?

with, the supernatural, which would seem to relegate it to the domain of the theologian or the preacher ? To which of these it more properly belongs, need not be determined at present, but I may be permitted to add that I think it may be accounted for on either hypothesis, without any serious offence to, or violent disruption of, existing beliefs, and 1 heartily agree with Copland* when he says...

You gotta believe

I argue that proper assertion requires belief. Jennifer Lackey has recently argued otherwise. Here I respond to Lackey’s argument and provide positive evidence that permissible assertion does require belief. The positive evidence takes the form of an explanatory argument from linguistic patterns surrounding the give and take of assertion. Looming large in the background of the discussion is whe...

You can't not believe everything you read.

Can people comprehend assertions without believing them? Descartes (1644/1984) suggested that people can and should, whereas Spinoza (1677/1982) suggested that people should but cannot. Three experiments support the hypothesis that comprehension includes an initial belief in the information comprehended. Ss were exposed to false information about a criminal defendant (Experiments 1 and 2) or a ...

Can you believe what you read?