India, May 16 -- Kochi On a sultry morning, the air-conditioned hall at the regional resource centre of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) in a quiet neighbourhood of Kochi was brimming with excitement.

Around 50 government secondary school teachers, mostly women, occupied half the hall, sitting on plastic chairs and crouching over their laptops, trying to finish what seemed like a crossword puzzle. At the front of the hall was a giant projection screen that displayed the working of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool adept at solving crossword puzzles within minutes as per one's commands.

Razeena, a woman trainer, with a microphone told the audience, "By giving the correct prompts, let's see who can solve the cr...