(ITA 2019) - QUESTÃO

As questão refere-se ao texto destacado:

About seven years ago, three researchers at the University of Toronto built a system that could analyze thousands of photos and teach itself to recognize everyday objects, like dogs, cars and flowers.

The system was so effective that Google bought the tiny start-up these researchers were only just getting off the ground. And soon, their system sparked a technological revolution. Suddenly, machines could “see” in a way that was not possible in the past.

This made it easier for a smartphone app to search your personal photos and find the images you were looking for. It accelerated the progress of driverless cars and other robotics. And it improved the accuracy of facial recognition services, for social networks like Facebook and for the country’s law enforcement agencies. But soon, researchers noticed that these facial recognition services were less accurate when used with women and people of color. Activists raised concerns over how companies were collecting the huge amounts of data needed to train these kinds of systems. Others worried these systems would eventually lead to mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.

Fonte: Matz, Cade. Seeking Ground Rules for A. 1. www.nytimes.com, 01 03 2019. Adaptado. Acessado em Agosto/2019.)

Analise as afirmações de I a IV em destaque.
I. Ativistas manifestaram preocupação em relação à forma como as empresas estavam coletando enormes quantidades de dados para treinar sistemas de reconhecimento.
II. A Universidade de Toronto construiu um sistema ético de Inteligência Artificial para reconhe cimento de imagens.
III. Uma das preocupações de ativistas era a possibilidade de tais sistemas conduzirem a vigilância em massa ou armamento autônomo.
IV. Empresas privadas de tecnologia, como Google, e redes digitais, como Facebook, junto com algumas agências governamentais, chegaram a um consenso quanto a uma ética da Inteligência Artificial.
V. Algumas leis foram desenvolvidas por alguns grupos específicos de pessoas para decidir sobre o futuro da Inteligência Artificial.

De acordo com o texto, estão corretas apenas:
a) I e II.
b) II, III e V.
c) I e III.
d) II, IV e V.
e) I, III e IV.

(ITA - 2019) QUESTÃO

As questão refere-se ao texto destacado:

About seven years ago, three researchers at the University of Toronto built a system that could analyze thousands of photos and teach itself to recognize everyday objects, like dogs, cars and flowers.

The system was so effective that Google bought the tiny start-up these researchers were only just getting off the ground. And soon, their system sparked a technological revolution. Suddenly, machines could “see” in a way that was not possible in the past.

This made it easier for a smartphone app to search your personal photos and find the images you were looking for. It accelerated the progress of driverless cars and other robotics. And it improved the accuracy of facial recognition services, for social networks like Facebook and for the country’s law enforcement agencies. But soon, researchers noticed that these facial recognition services were less accurate when used with women and people of color. Activists raised concerns over how companies were collecting the huge amounts of data needed to train these kinds of systems. Others worried these systems would eventually lead to mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.

Fonte: Matz, Cade. Seeking Ground Rules for A. 1. www.nytimes.com, 01 03 2019. Adaptado. Acessado em Agosto/2019.)

De acordo com as informações do texto, selecione a alternativa que melhor complete a afirmação: The new system proved to be less precise when 

a) applied to driverless cars. 

b) adjusted to users’ face recognition in social networks. 

c) identifying inanimate objects like cars and plants. 

d) used to identify Africans and African descendants. 

e) tested by American law enforcement agencies.

(ITA - 2019) QUESTÃO

No trecho: “it’s not just” democracy that is at risk, but also the economy”, a expressão sublinhada expressa uma ideia de 

a) oposição. 

b) concessão. 

c) concordância. 

d) adição. 

e) contraste.

(ITA - 2019) QUESTÃO

As questão refere-se ao texto destacado a seguir.

       If there is any doubt about the persistent power of literature in the face of digital culture, it should be banished by the recent climb of George Orwell’s 1984 up the Amazon “Movers and Shakers” list. There is much that’s resonant for us in Orwell’s dystopia in the face of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA [...]. We look to 1984 as a clear cautionary tale, even a prophecy, of systematic abuse of power taken to the end of the line. [...]

      However, after “THE END” of his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell includes another chapter, an appendix, called “The Principles of Newspeak.” Since it has the trappings of a tedious scholarly treatise, readers often skip the appendix. But it changes our whole understanding of the novel. Written from some unspecified point in the future, it suggests that Big Brother was eventually defeated. The victory is attributed not to individual rebels or to The Brotherhood, an anonymous resistance group, but rather to language itself. The appendix details Oceania’s attempt to replace Oldspeak, or English, with Newspeak, a linguistic shorthand that reduces the world of ideas to a set of simple, stark words. “The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.” It will render dissent “literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

Fonte: Frost, Laura. http://qz.com/95696. Adaptado. Acesso em agosto de 2019.

De acordo com o texto, é incorreto afirmar que

a) na obra 1984, Orwell retrata um mundo distópico que ainda possui relevância nos tempos atuais. 

b) a obra 1984 é considerada como um alerta para o uso abusivo do poder levado às últimas consequências. 

c) no apêndice, há o relato da tentativa de substituição da Oldspeak por uma língua mais abreviada (simplificada). 

d) o vocabulário da Newspeak é tão complexo que se torna difícil usá-lo para expressar discordância. 

e) Newspeak é uma língua que impossibilita externalizar um pensamento mais complexo.

(ITA - 2019) QUESTÃO

As questão refere-se ao texto destacado a seguir.

       If there is any doubt about the persistent power of literature in the face of digital culture, it should be banished by the recent climb of George Orwell’s 1984 up the Amazon “Movers and Shakers” list. There is much that’s resonant for us in Orwell’s dystopia in the face of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA [...]. We look to 1984 as a clear cautionary tale, even a prophecy, of systematic abuse of power taken to the end of the line. [...]

      However, after “THE END” of his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell includes another chapter, an appendix, called “The Principles of Newspeak.” Since it has the trappings of a tedious scholarly treatise, readers often skip the appendix. But it changes our whole understanding of the novel. Written from some unspecified point in the future, it suggests that Big Brother was eventually defeated. The victory is attributed not to individual rebels or to The Brotherhood, an anonymous resistance group, but rather to language itself. The appendix details Oceania’s attempt to replace Oldspeak, or English, with Newspeak, a linguistic shorthand that reduces the world of ideas to a set of simple, stark words. “The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.” It will render dissent “literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

Fonte: Frost, Laura. http://qz.com/95696. Adaptado. Acesso em agosto de 2019.

No trecho “but rather, to language itself”, o termo rather pode ser substituído, sem alteração de sentido, por 

a) to some extent. 

b) on behalf of. 

c) instead of. 

d) in support of. 

e) more exactly.

(ITA 2019) - QUESTÃO

As questão refere-se ao texto destacado a seguir.

       If there is any doubt about the persistent power of literature in the face of digital culture, it should be banished by the recent climb of George Orwell’s 1984 up the Amazon “Movers and Shakers” list. There is much that’s resonant for us in Orwell’s dystopia in the face of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA [...]. We look to 1984 as a clear cautionary tale, even a prophecy, of systematic abuse of power taken to the end of the line. [...]

      However, after “THE END” of his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell includes another chapter, an appendix, called “The Principles of Newspeak.” Since it has the trappings of a tedious scholarly treatise, readers often skip the appendix. But it changes our whole understanding of the novel. Written from some unspecified point in the future, it suggests that Big Brother was eventually defeated. The victory is attributed not to individual rebels or to The Brotherhood, an anonymous resistance group, but rather to language itself. The appendix details Oceania’s attempt to replace Oldspeak, or English, with Newspeak, a linguistic shorthand that reduces the world of ideas to a set of simple, stark words. “The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.” It will render dissent “literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

Fonte: Frost, Laura. http://qz.com/95696. Adaptado. Acesso em agosto de 2019.

De acordo com o texto, em geral, os leitores do clássico 1984, de George Orwell, dispensam a leitura do apêndice da obra porque 

a) não foi escrito pelo próprio autor. 

b) acreditam se tratar de mais um longo texto acadêmico. 

c) sua leitura não altera a compreensão da obra. 

d) foi escrito após a publicação do romance. 

e) sua autoria é desconhecida.