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India Today
01-08-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Moral education key to developed India, says Haryana Chief Minister Saini
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Wednesday underlined the role of moral education in building a developed India, while showcasing major strides made in digital and infrastructure reforms across the state's education was speaking at the Smart Class Expansion Programme jointly organised by the Sampark Foundation and the Haryana Education Department in Ladwa, also launched the Smart Television Education Project during the He emphasised that "education is not just confined to bookish knowledge but is a powerful medium that shapes the future of individuals, society, and the nation."DIGITAL PUSH IN SCHOOLSSaini announced that five lakh tablets have been distributed to students in Classes 10 to 12 across Haryana. In addition, nearly 40,000 classrooms have been equipped with digital boards and 1,201 Information Technology labs have been state has seen the rapid adoption of technology in classrooms, with more than 5,000 schools now having Wi-Fi Sampark Foundation has played a key role in this transformation, installing Sampark TV Boxes in 7,000 schools. These boxes provide digital versions of Haryana board textbooks, educational videos, worksheets, and said that a total of 1,485 schools have been equipped with LED TVs, and 132 schools in Ladwa and Babain blocks have been upgraded with smart class Foundation founder Vineet Nayar added, "Our aim is to create curiosity for learning among children and focus on the application of knowledge."SOLAR SCHEME TO CUT ELECTRICITY BILLSAt a separate event in Ladwa, Saini spoke about Haryana's commitment to renewable energy. He said the government has set a target to install solar panels on one lakh houses under the Pradhan Mantri Muft Bijli with an annual income below Rs 1.80 lakh will be eligible for 2 kW solar panels. 'Out of the total cost, Rs 70,000 will be borne by the central government and the remaining by the state government,' he stated. Once installed, households will no longer have to pay electricity also mentioned that a team of officers will visit each village to ensure smooth implementation of the solar FOR FARMERSHe further said that the state government has transferred Rs 1,334 crore to the accounts of farmers whose crops were damaged by recent heavy rains, a move aimed at offering immediate support to the agricultural community.(With inputs from PTI)- EndsMust Watch
India Today
08-05-2025
- Business
- India Today
AI job loss: Fiverr CEO says AI will replace humans, Duolingo and Shopify are already doing that
There has long been a conversation that AI will soon do a lot of mundane tasks that humans have to do right now. This includes some of the daily tasks at work, including coding, research, etc. India Today Tech interviewed the former HCL CEO Vineet Nayar in March 2024, who had then predicted that IT companies will soon need 70 per cent fewer people because of AI. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has on a number of occasions prophesied that AI will replace coders in the future. Earlier this week, Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman was a little more blunt in his prediction when he said that 'AI is coming for your jobs'. advertisement"It doesn't matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support, salesperson or a finance person - AI is coming for you," he said in an email he shared with his employees. In line with the predictions of other tech leaders, Kaufman also says that AI will soon be taking over the 'easy tasks' and turn them into automated processes. And the harder tasks will also be simplified with the help of AI. While these predictions sound like they are in a somewhat distant future, looking at the industry trends, that future is much closer than we realise. The recent update to Duolingo and Shopify's hiring policy is the best Aexample of that. Last month, Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke shared an internal memo setting up a new direction for the company. Lutke said that going forward, AI will be central to the company's work. Lutke said, here on, if anyone in the company hires a human employee, they will have to first prove why AI can not do that job. 'Before asking for more headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI,' he wrote. 'What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team?' advertisementLutke wrote in his memo that AI has led to a shift in how work is done faster than anything he has seen before. And to keep up with it, he asked his employees to look at AI as a partner for everything, whether it is writing code, doing research or in case they need an assistant. In fact, Lutke told his employees that AI usage will also be used as a factor in employee performance and peer reviews. He wants his employees to show how they are using AI, what they are doing to get better at it, etc. Duolingo recently did a similar thing. 'Duolingo is going to be AI-first', announced the company's CEO Luis von Ahn. 'We'll gradually stop using (human) contractors to do work that AI can handle,' he said. 'AI use will be part of what we look for in hiring.'While the Duolingo CEO insists that the shift in strategy is not about job cuts in order to save cost, but to overcome creative bottlenecks. However, the fact of the matter is that the practice will eventually lead to lesser number of human employees being hired, which will in turn lead to job loss. 'Headcount will only be (increased) if a team cannot automate more of their work,' Ahn solution? The common solution offered by almost all leaders is that professionals need to rapidly adapt, reskill, and adopt AI into their workflows. Replit CEO Amjad Massad recently said that with 'AI agents getting better, it would be a waste of time to learn how to code'. He suggests that to combat the new trend in the job market, employees need to 'learn how to think, learn how to break down problems. Learn how to communicate clearly [with AI], as you would with humans,' he said.
