Please help me gauge my standing in AWA by evaluating my issue essay. This is my first time writing a GRE Issue Essay and I am kinda anxious to know where I stand. I am pretty sure it is not great; I even ran out of time and so I could not include a conclusion...The prompt and my response as follows:

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

Response:

With the growing capability of machines and the wide variety of creative tasks they are able to perform nowadays, the question of whether human mind is superior to machines has become very nuanced. The prompt says that no matter how developed machines turn out to be in the future, the human mind will always be better than machines because machines are, after all, designed by humans. I mostly disagree with the prompt and think that machines will supersede humans in all aspects of life in the coming decades, including tasks such as designing and innovating things. I feel this way for the following two reasons.

To begin with, I believe that with the advent of artificial intelligence, machines can be said to have a brain of their own. Recently, machines have been capable of doing things in a way that goes out of the way of the instructions fed to them. For instance, there are programs such as Wolfram Alpha, which can solve complicated integrals and do all sorts of other tricky mathematical calculations on their own. The people who designed it fed it with a certain data of solutions corresponding to a certain data of problems. But now, it has a mind of its own, it can compute integrals it has never encountered before by using and improvising on the techniques it was fed with. Creative thinking is one aspect of the human mind that, we might think, separates us from machines. However, the lines have started to become murky in the recent times because now even machines can do some of the things we previously thought were only possible by humans. The above example demonstrates precisely this, and in addition, there are machines which can do proof reading of mathematical proofs, which shows that they can be thought to possess analytical skills.

Secondly, machines are also evolving just like humans. The 'brains' that the machines possess repeatedly keep filtering out things that they see as threats or errors. For example, stop for a second and imagine how terrible the initial robots were at communication. But now, if one keeps a human and a good robot at a discussion, it would be hard to distinguish between them without looking at them. The robots have evolved so much that they have mastered replies to questions they initially found themselves at loggerheads with and speak with good intonation. Now, intonation is a quality which we think is distinctly human, but once again the machines have fooled us.