Words are not objectively real; humans define them, not discover them. If we define soul in an equivalent way to consciousness, they're the same, if we don't, they're not.

Yeah I'm saying god plays dice. Or at least, there is no good reason that he shouldn't, and that is the simplest interpretation of quantum physics that we have. There's no reason reality on a fundamental scale should be explainable in terms of objects we find intuitive due to our familiarity with them on our scale. The world looks non-probabilistic because that's the well-understood result of loads of probabilistic things happening together.

In order do determine whether or not an algorithm is intelligent, again it's all just a matter of definitions. We need to define intelligence in order to have a discussion about it.