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No they aren't. If you have a specific goal, you can improve the way you acted towards that goal, though.

can you explain this with an example?

IMO communication is a skill involving verbal and non-verbal communication. If a robot suggests that you maintain eye contact while communicating, it might help someone be aware of that and improve. There's usually always important guidelines to follow that you're free to break at your own risk.

https://www.grammarly.com/tone

When I was in high school there was an amazing teacher that said um while giving written speeches. I started counting instead of listening to the actual speech.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=communication+skills

Would it have been better if they didn't create this tool because communication isn't a skill and because there isn't one objectively correct way to say good or bad

What would it take to convince you that speaking and communicating are skills?

A coherent explanation of what the skill is

A skill is any learned ability, acquired from practice or training.

Humans aren't born with a natural ability to speak. They learn it over time. All the way from producing sounds to forming sentences to using principles such as a rhetorical triangle.

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