Analysis Of Shelley Podolny´s Is Google Making USupid?

As creators, have we led ourselves to our own downfall? We continue to advance as a civilization and build up our technology to unimaginable heights. We are no longer performing the simplest of tasks because technology had been put in place so they become obsolete. Which is supposed to help us and allow us time to do more important tasks that are more essential to our day. While having a constant stream of information is helpful, the use of technology should have a minimal role everyday life because becoming dependent on that resource will have a detrimental effect on our intelligence. Shelley Podolny’s article “If an Algorithm Wrote this, How Would You Even Know?” discusses how algorithms are now being used to write articles that

By including this form of evidence or background to his article Carr better persuades his audience to believe what he is arguing to be truth. Thus farther prove his point that the internet is having a negative effect on the way we learn and focus. Each of these articles were selected for various reasons for us to analyze. Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” was specifically chosen and put into the Norton Field Guide a Freshman college textbook to have his audience question how our over use of the search engine Google may be affecting us negatively. Polodny’s “If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?” was selected to somewhat open the readers eyes to what we are reading and if it is even being written by who we think it is,

So there is no real particular audience Polodny is trying to appeal to because the subject of technology is relatable to everyone. It is an informative piece discussing how algorithms are writing articles and books that we may be reading every day and we do even know about it. Polodny affectively argues how we cannot really tell the difference between an algorithm and a human writer. She also explans how Robo-jounalism allows reports to go through less data processing but how this will possibly lead us on a slippery slope. Even with this some object and say that having this technology will only have a positive effect on the way we receive our information. I would reply that having this type of technology is helpful in emergency situation but is unnecessary when it comes to writing a sports column. New information is always going to be ready to report, but by having an algorithm taking the place of a human in writing the news feels like a step backward. In the sense of being able to trust the feeling and emotion you are reading about in an article about a homicide or the local team’s victory. Polodny brings up Kristian Hammond’s prediction as to how Robo-journalism is going to affect us he is a Narrative Science Professor of CS at Northwestern University. Hammond states that if we follow down the same that that we are on with our excessive use of algorithms, by the