Some people believe that technology is making us less human. Others think otherwise, claiming that technology is enhancing our humanities.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.
The last decade has seen a rapid acceleration when it comes to the speed of automation advancements, and with that acceleration comes intense philosophical debate about the relationship between automated machines and the humanness of the humanity of the future. Personally, I believe that automation will help enhance, rather the suppress, the qualities that make us humans. This is because automation will help facilitate self-discovery and divert our attention to tasks that require qualities automated machines can never possess.
First, by using and developing suitable technologies, humans can use artificial intelligence to discover qualities and feelings they may not be able to see otherwise. This can best be seen in the example of artificial intelligence-based meditation and journalling apps. Meditation and journaling have both long been considered to be useful ways for people to gain better insight into their inner selves. Yet, people shy away from them, because they may see these practices as costly or not beginner-friendly. However, over the past few years, there has been an emergence of AI-based applications and websites for these activities, namely Headspace and Calm for meditation, and Reflectly for journalling. With these apps, people can explore meditation and journalling at little to no cost, thus becoming more willing to get in touch with their inner selves, and affirming something that truly defines what being human means.
Secondly, automated machines can help us redirect our energy and brainpower to solving problems that require skills artificial intelligence can never replicate, rather than wasting time doing menial tasks. More specifically, AI systems can be trained to handle menial or difficult tasks while minimising the margin of error, while the responsibility of major decision-making will still lie in humans. By removing the bane of menial labour, automated systems will encourage humans to utilise qualities unique to humans more, thus "activating" skills that make us human. A notable example of this is how farmers utilise AI systems. By successfully utilising automation, farmers can reduce their time doing laborious tasks like planting seeds, and focus their attention towards other matters, such as deciding what new crops to plant or negotiating deals with agriculture buyers.
However, some people think that automation will make us less human because we will start to become over-reliant of automated systems. Yet, the people who hold this concern often have a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of AI. No matter how advanced an automated system can become, they can never acquire certain skills, including creativity and critical thinking. The reason for this lies in the nature of AI: all AI systems must be automated and autonomous, but the scopes of their automation and anatomy are determined by humans. In other words, no AI system can learn a new skill without guidance from humans. Because of this limitation, it is impossible for humans to rely on AI for every aspect of their lives. AI may replace menial labour, and it may help us solve problems, but never will it think critically or make decisions the way us humans do.
To conclude, AI systems will aid us in self-reflection and manual labour tasks, open up time for humans to learn and use the unique traits that define humanity. Thus, the emergence of automated systems will not cause the corrosion of our humanness; rather, it will help affirm it and elevate it to a new level.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 327, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...at automation will help enhance, rather the suppress, the qualities that make us humans. Thi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, while, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 9.8082437276 265% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 27.0 13.8261648746 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 8.0752688172 285% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2980.0 1977.66487455 151% => OK
No of words: 558.0 407.700716846 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34050179211 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86024933743 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04299597668 2.67179642975 114% => OK
Unique words: 286.0 212.727598566 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512544802867 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 945.0 618.680645161 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6732742019 48.9658058833 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.565217391 100.406767564 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2608695652 20.6045352989 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13043478261 5.45110844103 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150599920126 0.236089414692 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0503998857029 0.076458572812 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0534503208863 0.0737576698707 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0910916084212 0.150856017488 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0284273284353 0.0645574589148 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 11.7677419355 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 58.1214874552 67% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 10.9000537634 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 86.8835125448 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 10.002688172 170% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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