India's mess of complexity is just what AI needs

In 2010, I hired two engineers from an Indian college to help me develop a product that could automatically grade the spoken English ability of job applicants. About a year later, they knocked on my office door with concern etched on their brows. "We are doing machine learning here, but all our friends are doing software engineering," they explained. "Do we have a future?" Most businesses have a top-down mandate to incorporate AI into their processes and products.