Concepts,Relationships and Perspectives:Does Artificial Intelligence Need"Soul"?A Discussion by Five Communication Scholars
The rapid development of artificial intelligence generated by ChatGPT,Sora,etc.,has aroused people's multiple imaginations and worries about new technologies and the future human-machine collaborative society.The resulting questions about whether artificial intelligence will have soul,and whether it needs to have soul,have also triggered heated debates.Through conversations with four artificial intelligence researchers in the field of communication and after returning to the conceptual cluster of artificial intelligence and soul,the dialogue is carried out layer by layer,which is aimed at the questions such as whether artificial intelligence can be regarded as a form of intelligence,whether it can own soul or its important elements,what is the anchor point for the disembodied intelligent soul,and how we can build the human-machine relationship in the future society,the purpose of which is to find the answer to the question"Does artificial intelligence need soul?".