THE FUTURE IS HERE

How smart is today's artificial intelligence?

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.

Read the full transcript: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/smart-todays-artificial-intelligence/#transcript