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Submission + - 'Dilbert' Cartoon Dropped From Many News Outlets Over Creator Scott Adams' Racia (deadline.com) 6

Submitted by ArchieBunker
ArchieBunker writes: Newspapers across the country are pulling the “Dilbert” cartoon after a podcast racial rant from creator and author Scott Adams.

Adams said on his his Coffee with Scott Adams online video program that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” labeling Blacks as a “hate group.”

The Dilbert cartoon is a satire on office politics and has been around for more than three decades. It has spawned a media empire featuring dozens of books, a video game, an animated television series, and thousands of coffee cups and related merchandise. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, its highest honor.

Submission + - ChatGPT is Just a 'Way of Avoid Learning', Believes Noam Chomsky (esquiremag.ph) 1

Submitted by Ellis Haney
Ellis Haney writes: One critic who's less than impressed by ChatGPT is Noam Chomsky himself, one of the greatest intellectuals of our time. While Chomsky recognizes that ChatGPT can be useful for something, education is not it. In its current incarnation, ChatGPT is "basically high-tech plagiarism" and "a way of avoiding learning," according to Chomsky. When it comes to human education, it presents more cons than pros. How can students learn and understand the rigor of research if they can just ask ChatGPT to do it for them? Unlike Google, which requires a level of research and analysis, ChatGPT requires neither. And that's not even considering the plagiarism factor.

But it's not quite as black and white as that. Chomsky admits that should students resort to ChatGPT than doing the work themselves, then it might be an indication that the education system is failing its students if they're so willing to avoid learning altogether.

"[If it] has no appeal to students, doesn't interest them, doesn't challenge them, doesn't make them want to learn, they'll find ways out," said Chomsky.

From that perspective, it might infer that ChatGPT could just be a symptom instead of the root cause of something going wrong in our society today. Has the oversaturation of information negated the pursuit of knowledge? Has advanced technology only made it easier for humans to try less? Has society crumbled so much that humanity is willing to let AI take over?

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