Communication, Reason and Artificial Intelligence

Yoon-Ki An

Associate Professor,  Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary 

In this article, ‘communication in the era of Artificial Intelligence (= AI)’ was examined in terms of its possibility. Communication is an act performed by all living things, including humans, at various levels and forms for survival and prosperity. Can AI then communicate with humans or other AI machines? Human communication is done through a wonderful medium called ‘language’, which is possible, because humans have a special intellectual power, named as ‘reason’. Because AI-technique developed since the middle of the 20th century imitated or overcame human reason and language, some people thought that it was possible to communicate with AI and realized the idea in the form of a conversation robot (= Chatbot). In this article, however, it is not judged as true communication, because a machine without self-consciousness and the need for self-preservation can not be the sender or recipient of the message.

Key words：communication, language, reason, AI, self-consciousness