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SUMMARY: Artificial intelligence is creeping into our everyday lives through technology like check-scanning machines and GPS navigation. How far away are we from making intelligent machines that actually have minds of their own? Hari Sreenivasan reports on the ethical considerations of artificial intelligence as part of our Breakthroughs series.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us. We rely on smart machines to scan our checks at ATMs, to navigate us on road trips and much more.
Still, humans have quite an edge. Just today, four of the world’s best Texas Hold ‘Em poker players won an epic two-week tournament against, yes, an advanced computer program. The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.
Hari Sreenivasan has the first in a series of stories about it and the concerns over where it may lead. It’s the latest report in our ongoing Breakthroughs series on invention and innovation.
HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour): Artificial intelligence has long captured our imaginations.
ACTOR: Open the pod bay doors, Hal. (2001: A Space Odyssey)
ACTOR: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I cannot do that.
HARI SREENIVASAN: With robots like Hal in “2001: A Space Odyssey” and now Ava from the recently released “Ex Machina.”
ACTRESS: Hello. I have never met anyone new before.
HARI SREENIVASAN: And “Chappie.”
ACTRESS: A thinking robot could be the end of mankind.
HARI SREENIVASAN: The plots thicken when the intelligent machines question the authority of their makers, and begin acting on their own accord.
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