Wired editor Maria Streshinsky speaks to computer and data science experts Kai-Fu Lee and Fei-Fei Li. We're told constantly that artificial Intelligence (AI) is ever-rising in its ubiquity, seeping into every industry, finding its place in all aspects of the business-- enabling us to work in different ways; in some cases, threatening to take over our roles entirely. Stats such as recruitment firm Robert Walters', which predicts AI will give rise to 133 million new jobs across the globe in the future, can sound vague and far off in a distant future, while things probably haven't seemed to have changed much at our desks. But rest assured, hype aside, the'age of AI' is drawing closer, and the evidence lies in businesses' eagerness to invest in the talent to make it happen. The AI specialist now represents the fastest-growing role in the United States over the last four years.