India, Oct. 22 -- At a time when the world is busy writing about what artificial intelligence will do to mankind, a group of young women has quietly rewritten the script by demonstrating what they can do with it. And theirs may be the far more interesting AI story.

At a recent demo day event at Google's Gurugram Office, UNICEF Generation Unlimited and Technovation hosted eleven women founders aged between 19 and 24 - to showcase their ideas. Barely 12 weeks earlier, many had never written a line of code. Some had never spoken to a customer.

More than 1,000 young women from 60 countries entered this unique programme. Just 12 weeks later, over 200 had completed working products, demo videos and pitches. The interesting thing about these e...