The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only tools of human minds

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The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only tools of human minds

Ever since the industrial revolution, human has started lending increasingly more complex jobs to machines. First physical work like manufacturing with precision, followed by low-level mental work such as calculation and memory storage, and now with the blooming field robot research and development, we create machines that can think for themselves. Are machines ever going to exceed the mental capability of a human mind? In many ways, it is highly probably. However, there are unique qualities of human mind that will remain superior to machine.

The rapidly emerging innovations in the field of robot research and development never cease to leave the general public in awe. Any task with exhaustative options that can be computerised in algorithms, from cleaning the floor to cooking, from assisting in services to performing complex calculations, we can make powerful machines that achieve them with ease. Even the perceived pinnacle of human intelligence, the ancient game of Go, has its world champion defeated by AlphaGo, a machine invented by Google. AlphaGo is capable of sharpening its skills with each game it plays, using deep learning, a skill previously thought to be the priviledge of a human mind. With self-learning ability, the sky's the limit for what a machine can potentially do. And it is conceivable a machine's thinking capability will soon exceeds that of human in many fields, given its powerful computation power that is far superior to that of a human brain.

Although it is expected that machines will outperform humans in myriad realms, there remains things unique to human minds that a machine will be unlikely to achieve. The greatest limitation to machine is anything with infinitive or fluid options. For example, human brain is hardwired to extrapolate linguistic features or emotive responses from birth. Even the most undeveloped mind of baby's could actively seek out opportunities to learn and abstract the situations it encounters, and thence form its own abstract generalisable rule. Human brain needs not have heard a sentence to be able to generate it, and it needs not to have been in a certain situation to be able to respond emotionally to it in an appropriate manner. These things trivial and natural to a humanbeing are very difficult for machines.

Moreover, the ability to independently philosophize, create and invent is unique to human. Any machine is a creation by human for human afterall, and it tends to only serve the purpose that a human gives it. However, as free-living beings, human minds seek meanings to life and never cease to strive for brilliant new creations. For example, a machine can be encoded to write alright poems, paint alright pictures, but it can hardly create anything powerful from its own experience, full of its own emotions, which inspires and revolutionizes the field. Could a machine have created the school of Impressionism, written the Hamlet, or invented a theory that explains the way capitalism and society function? The brilliant human mind excel in these fields constantly, bringing unique beauty to our life with independent thinking.

With the reasons discussed above, I am optimistic that machines will become ever more powerful with the development in algorithms, but human brains will certainly remain superior in many fields.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'for example', 'such as']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.244932432432 0.240241500013 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.146959459459 0.157235817809 93% => OK
Adjectives: 0.116554054054 0.0880659088768 132% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0540540540541 0.0497285424764 109% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0388513513514 0.0444667217837 87% => OK
Prepositions: 0.101351351351 0.12292977631 82% => OK
Participles: 0.0456081081081 0.0406280797675 112% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.90707602779 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0456081081081 0.030933414821 147% => OK
Particles: 0.00168918918919 0.0016655270985 101% => OK
Determiners: 0.0793918918919 0.0997080785238 80% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0219594594595 0.0249443105267 88% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0135135135135 0.0148568991511 91% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3332.0 2732.02544248 122% => OK
No of words: 533.0 452.878318584 118% => OK
Chars per words: 6.25140712946 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80487177365 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.388367729831 0.366273622748 106% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.31894934334 0.280924506359 114% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.240150093809 0.200843997647 120% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.136960600375 0.132149295362 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90707602779 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 219.290929204 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519699812383 0.48968727796 106% => OK
Word variations: 63.315951021 55.4138127331 114% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6194690265 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.2083333333 23.380412469 95% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.2071483345 59.4972553346 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.833333333 141.124799967 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2083333333 23.380412469 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.416666666667 0.674092028746 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 54.1032676673 51.4728631049 105% => OK
Elegance: 1.6338028169 1.64882698954 99% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409154002175 0.391690518653 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.079294433771 0.123202303941 64% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0691203102677 0.077325440228 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.484696994154 0.547984918172 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.146505740561 0.149214159877 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155835544359 0.161403998019 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0893079257013 0.0892212321368 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.384064046756 0.385218514788 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.127646114651 0.0692045440612 184% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.284053328997 0.275328986314 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0464245866735 0.0653680567796 71% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.4325221239 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 17.0 7.22455752212 235% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 3.66592920354 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 22.0 13.5995575221 162% => OK

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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