Bengaluru: Satish Acharya, a veteran cartoonist, has been guiding the Cartoon Festival at Kundapur for the past 12 years. Usually, cartoons of Kundapur and well-known cartoonists are displayed during such festivals. This year, the festival was held for five days from November 15 to 19, with a theme of a cartoon salute to the Khaki. It goes without saying that the police were the subject of the festival. Attended by policemen and women: B. Dayanand, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) and Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services for the state of Karnataka, inaugurated the festival on the first day. The function was attended by policemen and women. The five-day camp was held at the Kundapur Rotary Club premises, just like the way it has been going on in the same premises for the past 12 years. Master strokes...: According to Jeevan Shetty, veteran cartoonist and a resource person for the past 12 years, the cartoon festival kicked off with a very good start and in...
Bengaluru: A few decades ago, the Dot. coms came with a big bang. Later, television channels made an entry, first the Hindi, later English and subsequently regional language channels, initially Entertainment, followed by Infotainment and finally 24X7 News channels. An impression was floated that it would also be the end of print media, or newspapers. Such a psychology prevailed among the working scribes then. However, it took some time for the bubble to settle down, and all such fears were proved unwise. Now, a much more dangerous trend has set in, in the form of AI and ChatGPT. Kicking off a plan to affect as many as 30,000 corporate jobs! Aki Ito, a chief correspondent at Business Insider, reports: A collective shudder ran down the spine of America's white-collar workforce. Amazon announced it's laying off 14,000 employees in a memo that cited AI, kicking off a plan that is expected eventually to affect as many as 30,000 corporate jobs ... ...AI's capabilities to shrink ...