India, Nov. 15 -- It may be the oldest human story - the story of desire, not always moral. Orion's pursuit of the Pleiades comes to no good in the Legend of the Seven Sisters, a story as old as the history of civilisation. and told all over the world in different iterations. That story of desire, however, ends with the protagonists illuminating the skies as familiar constellations.

The latest story of desire to capture our imagination - involving a lynchpin of the Artificial Intelligence boom, trillions of dollars of investor wealth, and geopolitical ramifications - may not have such a fairytale conclusion. At the heart of this tale is the desire of Jensen Huang, the co-founder of chip giant Nvidia, and the ethical questions posed by hi...