Artificial intelligence research continues at full speed with countless applications which we directly see its effects. However, the ultimate goal of these researches is not to produce technologies that make our lives easier, but to obtain the kind of intelligence that humans have, namely the general artificial intelligence and even more. We want AI to not only be a chess master, drive a car or be an assistant, but also be able to make meaningful communication, come up with creative ideas, have common sense and think about the world. When talking about the possibility of such an intelligence, philosophical problems arise. Prominent among these is the epistemological problem of how we can know whether AI has the real intelligence like humans have. At this point, the behaviorist approach, which looks for the signs of intelligence in the behaviors exhibited, may be justified, but there is a requirement for this. AI should convince us that it does indeed have general intelligence. The fact that consciousness could play a role in this attempt at persuasion would imply that AI and consciousness are more strongly interconnected than previously thought. In the goal of becoming a more autonomous being/individual, the path of AI may intersect with the existence of consciousness.