This would mean they've reached a new level of consciousness (as long as they weren't programmed to do so), though not even close to the human level of consciousness.
I would agree with that Perhaps it'd be like opening up Pandoras box There's a lot on the internet from which it could draw, so they could find some really unexpected things to talk about
I wonder if we could learn from them? Because if they're having conversations based off of all the information they have access to,  they could probably teach  us a lot.
It could get to a point that they replace teachers.  And then unemployment would go up
Yeah, if they could relate information in coherent and complex conversations, it might revolutionize education.
But I think something like that is still a ways away (though maybe sooner than I expect) Actually, now that I think about it, AI is pretty smart.  In middle school, my friends and I asked an AI software questions, one question being "What is my friend's name?" And then The AI guesses my friend's name *guessed (And we didn't use his name beforehand (if I remember correctly))
Yeah, most of what computers do now, even thinking on a superficial level, is done through algorithms or programmed tasks, so we're still a long ways away from giving AI consc *consciousness That's pretty cool, what AI did you ask to guess your friends name?
I think it was Cleverbot It guessed it by complete chance, but the fact it got it out of whatever names it had in its database was crazy
Yeah
Now that I'm thinking about it, what is the tipping point of AI becoming conscious?  At what point does it become conscious?  My brain is beginning to hurt
AI could probably already do a lot under the conscience category, but probably not the most essential aspects of it For example, they're probably able to detect stimulus and senses
What can it do in the conscious category? I see
But they're calculating, and probably don't have inner thought the way we do They also can't visualize And they don't experience emotions or dreams
good points