The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only tools of human minds.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Alongside the development of the Internet and computers, there has been excessive discussions about the potential threats of misuse of machines. Especially, the power of artificial intelligence makes people feel increasingly insecure and questioning whether it will extinct human in the near future. Some people claim that, as a tool developed by humans, machines can never be superior to human minds. While others dismiss the logic of this reasoning and suggest that it is probable that machines indeed overbeat human minds in various aspects. This essay is going to argue that, to a large extent, human minds will incessantly be superior to machines because of our ability to define problems and make sensible judgements.
Admittedly, there in effect exist certain occasions when machines are capable of achieving a goal or solve a problem more efficiently and more accurately. This phenomenon is not surprising because two main characteristics of machines are indefatigability and small probability of making mistakes. Therefore, when given a well-defined question, such as repeatedly rising an object a million times, or invert a high dimensional matrix, which would cost humans several years, machines can accomplish it instantaneously.
However, this previous-mentioned privilege of machines is built upon an indispensable assumption, that is the task is well-defined. Conversely, when facing a vague task such that it requires people to discover questions and decide the next-step action, machines are not compatible with human minds. One of the most appropriate cases that machines cannot easily adopt can be scientific research, where the most crucial step is deemed as finding a question. Machines are impossible to achieve this because it demands subtle human sensitivity and human interactions. Hence, with this respect, it seems plausible to argue that machines can only be used as a tool to safe human labours, but cannot be superior to human minds.
Last but not least, machines cannot determine whether the results they get from their built-in algorithms are sensible or not. For instance, the machine learning algorithm 'neural network’ is particularly popular during the past decade since it has been invented. The biggest advantage of it is that machines can learn to mimic the way humans making decisions, and thus help people to detect the most relevant elements which affect a certain outcome. Nevertheless,
ironically, the set of elements chosen by this algorithm are often ridiculous. The machine might suggest that the most relevant contribution to lung cancer is whether people bring a lighter with them instead of smoking. The reason behind that is because the machine can only make judgements based on data, while it lacks the so called ‘soft knowledge’ which is the distinguished figure of human beings to connect different aspects, such as emotions, culture and social politics. Thus, all the results received from machines remains to be final-assessed by human minds, and that gives strong reason to believe that machines cannot be superior to humans.
In conclusion, this essay has argued that, to a large extent, machines cannot be superior to human minds. Although machines can accomplish tasks more efficient and accurate when facing a well-defined problem, they can neither discover problems itself nor judge the results they get using social and cultural knowledge. Further investigations could be conducted on the way to make machines better assistants of human beings. After all, machines indeed help to improve the quality of human lives.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 244, Rule ID: REASON_IS_BECAUSE[1]
Message: Probably an incorrect phrase. Use 'the reason 'is that''.
Suggestion: is that
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, hence, however, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, well, while, after all, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3046.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 558.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45878136201 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86024933743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98410129672 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519713261649 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 951.3 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1555447384 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.916666667 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.325284758172 0.243740707755 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10691700125 0.0831039109588 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0693765429688 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190046029967 0.150359130593 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0545370651957 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.33 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 161.0 100.480337079 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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