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What kind of "intelligent" is your artificial intelligence?
Films imagined the robots of the future with some personality: the outspoken C3PO, the quirky Wall-E and maniacal Megatron. Next to the robots of Hollywood, Siri and Alexa are rather dull. But their scripts weren't written by a Hollywood writer, but by the engineers and programmers pioneering artificial intelligence. All artificial intelligence, quirky or not, is programmed with a set of rules by which they operate. For autonomous cars, speed limit and turn signals are requisite but what about life-or-death questions: hit the pedestrian or veer off the road?