(bright orchestrated music) - my name is shivani bigler. as an engineer and neuroscientist in training, i'm obsessed with artificial intelligence. as a kid, my father took me to tech and robotics trade shows where i became dazzled by science. every year, the inventions were smarter and smarter. artificial intelligence has come a very long way in the last couple of years. most ai technologies are programmed to think for themselves, to learn from examples, kind of like simulating human intelligence in a way that it learns from past experience. but how does ai actually work? in the future, will ai achieve human traits like emotion, consciousness, or even free will? and how will humans and robots work together? (humming music) today, the clearest road of the future is the self driving car. unlike a regular car, which is just a machine, a self-driving car is a robot that can make decisions. in the future, will every car on the road become driverless? to find out, i've come to a hotbed of self-driving car research, pittsburgh, pennsylvania. every

- [shivani] yeah. incredibly, his software also allows him to superimpose any face he wants in real time. - so if i do this, this blue face is basically a face tractor. so ireal time it's actually modeling my face in 3d. so if i move around my face, the blue mask, isn't basically a three dimensional reesentation of my face. - wow, it's kinda like a green screen. (indistinct) like a hollywood cgi film, the computer dynamically models hao's face and tracks his movement on the fly. - like on him. (shivani chuckles) turn myself into putin. - wow (laughs). - and it's basically generating the whole thi in real time rht now. - oh my gosh. i feel like putin's talking to me right now. (hao laughs) political leaders aren't the only thing hao can generate. - we have de cruz (shivani laughs) as audrey hepburn. - oh wow, look at you. you're so pretty (laughs). - it's generating all the pixels in real time. these teeth are never seen in this picture. - so it's predicting what your teeth would end up looking like the