New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- Designer Raghavendra Rathore started his morning by "feeding" an AI chatbot over 50,000 words. The monologue covered his formative years, building an eponymous fashion house over three decades, and the influences on his work, including his signature creations, such as the Jodhpur bandhgala. "I am educating it (AI) about myself. There will come a time when you won't need me to be present in an interview; my avatar will answer exactly the way I speak and think," says Rathore, who regularly talks to the bot, a general tool. "It's thinking more like me today than it did yesterday." ​

A tech enthusiast, Rathore has been experimenting with AI for the past four years. He uses it as an archive keeper ("the different m...