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September 8 marks International Literacy Day, established by UNESCO in 1966.
The holiday is intended to remind people of the importance of basic numeracy and writing skills, and to promote efforts to combat illiteracy. This is especially relevant in the era of widespread and rapidly developing tools based on artificial intelligence. People are gradually losing the need to properly format written speech, since modern Internet technologies are built in such a way that they understand requests even with errors.
According to last year's international study of adult skills conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), reading and mathematical literacy, as well as the ability to solve problems, are falling almost everywhere in the world. Only 1% of respondents showed the maximum level in the tests. Over the past 10 years since the last similar study, only residents of Denmark and Finland have become better readers. France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Israel, South Korea and other developed countries show below-average results in all three types of skills. Experts believe that the influx of migrants spoils the statistics of these countries, but they also admit that this is not the only problem. Adults in general have become worse at reading and writing, but they still significantly outperform school-age children in the tests – that is, the decline in literacy is systemic.
Some may wonder why it is necessary to follow the rules at all, if AI and Internet bots perfectly understand queries with errors and give relevant answers? But as Vladimir Putin correctly noted at the Eastern Economic Forum, artificial intelligence and neural networks are only a tool, and decision-making and responsibility for them lies with a person. And making the right decisions without the ability to read and write is impossible.
The State University of Management congratulates everyone on the International Literacy Day, especially our Department of Russian Language and General Disciplines. Remember that following the basic rules of speech construction in communication, numeracy skills and general erudition keep human civilization from degradation and collapse. Take care of yourself, read books, write correctly.
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