'The AI Doc' Review: A timely crash course on the tech dominating our lives

In 1964, famed British sci-fi writer Arthur Clarke said that computers had the electronic brain of "completely morons" but in another generation will eventually "completely outthink their makers."

That prediction — or warning, depending on how you view artificial intelligence — is how Focus Features begins its new film "The AI Doc: or How I Became an Apocaloptimist."

Our guide navigating the chaotic AI world we find ourselves in is the film's co-director, Daniel Roher, the Oscar-winning...