Artificial intelligence: The good and the bad

To some, the notion of “artificial intelligence” conjures images of killer robots, a la Terminator, or of dystopian worlds, such as in The Matrix. 
But to Peter McKinnon — who’s been involved in the industry since the 1980s as a business owner, researcher and observer — it’s not all doom and gloom for the future of AI. 
The way the Ottawa futurist tells it at seminars, and to this newspaper, AI fits into two categories: the “white stream”