From Artificial Intelligence to the Immortality of the Soul

Papers

Publication date:

September 2023

At the end of 2022, ChatGPT was released to the general public; it is a softwareprogram trained to reproduce human language and to answer any question it is asked. The fact that this softwarehas learned to offer non-predetermined responses, thanks to the vast amount of information fed into it, has put the expression artificial intelligence (AI) on everyone's lips. We now have a tool capable of composing everything from an unpublished romantic poem in the style of Goethe to an academic paper comparing two authors who have never previously been studied together— and doing so better than 99% of mortals! A program like this raises many questions for us: Is AI really intelligent? Where is its novelty? What will be the consequences of its being widely used? Will it help to improve our world? What can we expect?

Culture & Society

Modernism & Post-Modernism

Author

Xavier

Casanovas

Mathematician and PhD in philosophy. He was director of Cristianisme i Justícia between 2014 and 2021, an organisation in which he continues to participate as a member of the social area. He is currently a lecturer at IQS-Ramon Llull University, where he is part of the Chair of Ethics and Christian Thought. In Cristianisme i Justícia, he has published the CJ 170 Booklet Tax justice, a global struggle.