Computers are after your jobs, and they're coming fast. According to Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, artificial intelligence (AI) will beat humans at just about everything by 2030. We're already seeing the fast-food worker at the local McDonald's replaced by an interactive kiosk, so are farmers' livelihoods next? That is, if you believe some of the really terrifying research coming out of the University of Oxford. According to the report, machines will be superior to us in translating languages by 2024 and writing school essays by 2026.

We head to Austin now for the annual South by Southwest Conference in this week's All Tech Considered. CORNISH: Now, South by Southwest is known for the music, but running alongside the shows are panels that bring leaders across industries together to discuss what's cutting edge. And one emerging technology being talked about a lot is artificial intelligence. For more on that, NPR's Laura Sydell joins us from Austin. CORNISH: To begin, obviously, people are talking about AI across the tech industry.