The smartest sci-fi movie on Netflix reveals a dark truth about future technology

A lonely single man sits down at his computer and meets the love of his life. It seems like a plausible scenario that could occur today. There's just one catch: the love of his life isn't a profile photo of a human on a dating website -- it's an artificially intelligent operating system that adopts a female-sounding voice and goes by the name "Samantha." Released in 2013, the sci-fi drama Her was ahead of its time in anticipating the lightning-fast advances in AI that are now starting to shape our everyday lives. But was its depiction of artificial intelligence scientifically accurate?