Siri or Skynet? How to separate AI fact from fiction

"Google fires engineer who contended its AI technology was sentient." A new discovery (or debacle) is reported practically every week, sometimes exaggerated, sometimes not. Policymakers struggle to know what to make of AI and it's hard for the lay reader to sort through all the headlines, much less to know what to be believe. Here are four things every reader should know. First, AI is real and here to stay.