Hottest job in China's hinterlands: Teaching AI to tell a truck from a turtle

Yi Yake and his boyhood friends grew up in a farming village in central China, swinging sickles to harvest the family wheat crop. Yi got a job marketing computer games. His friend worked in a fireworks store. Today Yi drives a white BMW and, along with two childhood buddies, employs over 200 people in what is quickly becoming a boom industry in China -- artificial intelligence. Their company, located in a city near their parents' village in Henan province, provides an essential early service in the AI process, labeling images and videos to help make computers smarter.