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Ever since the birth of it, the computer has largely changed human being’s life
and there has been a hot debate about its effects on humans. Undeniably, compute
rs have taken the place of humans in many areas and it seems that computers beg
in to think like man, but this does not necessarily lead to the danger that man will
think like computers.
The reasons, in my opinion, are as follows. Firstly, when computers release hu
man from repetitive tasks, humans themselves can spend more time on creative wo
rks, such as scientific research, which require imagination and cannot be completed
by computers. Meanwhile, thanks to computers, humans get more spare time with t
heir friends and family, which enhances their happiness. Moreover, even though co
mputers can work automatically, the premise is that the program, which is written
by humans, has been installed in it.
In conclusion, humans, unlike computers, have creative ability, emotional desires
and social bounds. Thus, I don’t think that there will be the danger that man will
begin to think like the computer.
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On Maintaining Trust
Trust is the most frequently used word when we are talking about interpersonal
relationships. However, it is hard to build trust but easy to destroy it. Therefore, h
ow to build and maintain trust is very important for us. In my opinion, some factor
s play a primary role in it.
First comes honesty. There’s an old saying in Chinese: once bitten, twice shy.
Thus, never lie to your partners. If they find out you’re lying or cheating, the existi
ng trust will be broken. Once broken, it’s always hard to rebuild it. Promise-keeping
is the second one. If you always break your promise, you will not be trusted by o
thers any more. Another important aspect is attitude. People with good attitude are
always welcome. They show their good manners, patience, modesty, willingness to
communicate and, most important of all, sincerity to others, which contributes grea
tly to eliminating apathy and coldness.
There are, still, other influential factors. However, from my perspective, honesty,
promise-keeping and good attitude stand out among them.
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Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker
that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
From self-service checkout lines at the supermarket to industrial robots armed
with saws and taught to carve up animal carcasses in slaughter-houses, these ever-
more-intelligent machines are now not just assisting workers but actually kicking the
m out of their jobs.
Automation isn’t just affecting factory workers, either. Some law firms now use
artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work
that previously was performed by highly paid human lawyers.
“Robots continue to have an impact on blue-collar jobs, and white-collar jobs ar
e under attack by microprocessors,” says Edward Leamer, an economics professor a
t UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forec
ast, a survey of the U.S. and California economies. Leamer says the recession perm
anently wiped out 2.5 million jobs. U.S. gross domestic product has climbed back to
pre-recession levels, meaning we’re producing as much as before, only with 6 perc
ent fewer workers. To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with
outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation.
Jeff Burnstein, president of the Robotics Industry Association, a trade group in
Ann Arbor, Mich., argues that robots actually save U.S. jobs. His logic: companies t
hat embrace automation might use fewer workers, but that’s still better than firing
everyone and moving the work overseas.
It’s not that robots are cheaper than humans, though often they are. It’s that t
hey are better. “In some cases the quality requirements are so stringent that even
if you wanted to have a human do the job, you couldn’t,” Burnstein says.
Same goes for surgeons, who are using robotic systems to perform an ever-gro
wing list of operations—not because the machines save money but because, thanks
to the greater precision of robots, the patients recover in less time and have fewer
complications, says Dr. Myriam Curet.
Surgeons may survive the robot invasion, but others at the hospital might not
be so lucky, as iRobot, maker of the Roomba, a robot vacuum cleaner, has been s
howing off Ava, a three- foot-tall droid on wheels that carries a tablet computer. iRo
bot reckons Ava could be used as a courier in a hospital. And once you’re home, r
ecovering, Ava could let you talk to your doctor, so there’s no need to send someo
ne to your house. That “mobile telepresence” could be useful at the office. If you’r
e away on a trip, you can still attend a meeting. Just connect via videoconferencing
software, so your face appears on Ava’s screen.
Is any job safe? I was hoping to say “journalist,” but researchers are already d
eveloping algorithms that can gather facts and write a news story. Which means th
at a few years from now, a robot could be writing this column. And who will read i
t? Well, there might be a lot of us hanging around with lots of free time on our h
ands.
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