New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- Every week, artificial intelligence (AI) claims become more stratospheric. Earlier this month, Elon Musk told a podcast of his plans to put satellites housing giant data centres in space that would be run on solar power. "In 36 months, probably closer to 30 months, the most compelling place to put AI will be in space," he said. Jeff Bezos and Google are reportedly planning something similar.

This week, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made an even more bold prediction. Speaking to Prannoy Roy on DeKoder, he laid out a vision so utopian that it resembled India as a paradise. Khosla prophesized that by 2030, a poor child in rural India would, via AI, have tutors as good as those of wealthy children in bi...