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Q2517169
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: FGV Órgão: TCE-GO Provas: FGV - 2024 - TCE-GO - Analista de Controle Externo - Ciências Contábeis | FGV - 2024 - TCE-GO - Analista de Controle Externo - Jurídica | FGV - 2024 - TCE-GO - Analista de Controle Externo - Tecnologia da Informação | FGV - 2024 - TCE-GO - Analista de Controle Externo - Controle Externo | FGV - 2024 - TCE-GO - Analista de Controle Externo - Engenharia |
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Artificial intelligence and the future of humanity

Thinking and learning about artificial intelligence are the mental equivalent of a fission chain reaction. The questions get really big, really quickly.

The most familiar concerns revolve around short-term impacts: the opportunities for economic productivity, health care, manufacturing, education, solving global challenges such as climate change and, on the flip side, the risks of mass unemployment, disinformation, killer robots, and concentrations of economic and strategic power.

Each of these is critical, but they’re only the most immediate considerations. The deeper issue is our capacity to live meaningful, fulfilling lives in a world in which we no longer have intelligence supremacy.

As long as humanity has existed, we’ve had an effective monopoly on intelligence. We have been, as far as we know, the smartest entities in the universe.

At its most noble, this extraordinary gift of our evolution drives us to explore, discover and expand. Over the past roughly 50,000 years—accelerating 10,000 years ago and then even more steeply from around 300 years ago—we’ve built a vast intellectual empire made up of science, philosophy, theology, engineering, storytelling, art, technology and culture.

If our civilisations—and in varying ways our individual lives—have meaning, it is found in this constant exploration, discovery and intellectual expansion.

Intelligence is the raw material for it all. But what happens when we’re no longer the smartest beings in the universe? We haven’t yet achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the term for an AI that could do anything we can do. But there’s no barrier in principle to doing so, and no reason it wouldn’t quickly outstrip us by orders of magnitude.

Even if we solve the economic equality questions through something like a universal basic income and replace notions of ‘paid work’ with ‘meaningful activity’, how are we going to spend our lives in ways that we find meaningful, given that we’ve evolved to strive and thrive and compete?


Adapted from https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/artificialintelligence-and-the-future-of-humanity/
The word “roughly” in “Over the past roughly 50,000 years” (5th paragraph) indicates a(n)
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Q2486261
Inglês Pronomes | Pronouns ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: CESGRANRIO Órgão: Caixa Provas: CESGRANRIO - 2024 - Caixa - Técnico Bancário Novo - 1° Simulado | CESGRANRIO - 2024 - Caixa - Técnico Bancário Novo - Tecnologia da Informação - 1° Simulado |
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Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand”


For decades, there’s been a running academic debate about the question of “the hot hand”— the notion, in basketball, say, that a player has a statistically better chance of scoring from downtown if he’s been shooting that night with unusual accuracy. Put it this way: Stephen Curry, the point guard genius for the Golden State Warriors, who normally hits forty-four per cent of his threes, will raise his odds to fifty per cent or better if he’s already on a tear. He’s got a “hot hand.” If you watch enough N.B.A. ball, it appears to happen all the time. But does it? Thirty years ago, Thomas Gilovich, Amos Tversky, and Robert Vallone seemed to squelch the hot-hand theory with a stats-laden paper in the journal Cognitive Psychology, but, just last year, along came Joshua Miller and Adam Sanjurjo, marshalling no less evidence, to insist that an “atypical clustering of successes” in three-point shooting was not a “wide spread cognitive illusion” at all, but rather that it “occurs regularly.”

Steph Curry fans, who have been loyal witnesses to his improbable streaks from beyond the arc, surely agree with Professors Miller and Sanjurjo. But let’s assume that the debate, in basketball or at the blackjack table, remains open. What’s clear is that when it comes to the life of the imagination, the hot hand is a matter of historical fact. Novelists, composers, painters, and poets are apt to experience stretches of intense creativity that might derive from any number of factors — surrounding historical events, artistic rivalries, or, most mysteriously, inspiration — but the streak is undeniably there.

For Dylan, the greatest and most abundant songwriter who has ever lived, the most intense period of wild inspiration and creativity ran from the beginning of 1965 to the summer of 1966.

Before that fifteen-month period, Bob Dylan, who was twenty-three, had already transformed folk music, building on Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams. Now he was scribbling lyrics on pads and envelopes all night and listening to the Stones and the Beatles and feverishly reading the Surrealists and the Beats. In short order, he recorded the music for “Bringing It All Back Home” (the crossover to rock that ranges from “Mr. Tambourine Man” to “Subterranean Homesick Blues”); “Highway 61 Revisited” (the best rock album ever made; again, send your rebuttal to ); and “Blonde on Blonde” (a double album recorded in New York and Nashville that includes “Visions of Johanna” and “Just Like a Woman”).


Full text available on https://www.newyorker. com/culture/cultural-comment/bob-dylanand-the-hot-hand
[Questão inédita] In the fragment “Stephen Curry, the point guard genius for the Golden State Warriors, who normally hits forty-four per cent of his threes”, the word his refers to
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Q2440837
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: APEX Brasil Provas: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2024 - APEX Brasil - Analista - Negócios Internacionais | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2024 - APEX Brasil - Analista - Processos Contábeis |
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Text CB1A7 

    Whenever a global economic transformation takes place, a single city usually drives it forward. Ghent, in modern-day Belgium, was at the core of the burgeoning global wool trade in the 13th century. The first initial public offering took place in Amsterdam in 1602. London was the financial centre of the first wave of globalisation during the 19th century. Today the city is San Francisco. 

    California’s commercial capital has no serious rival in generative artificial intelligence (AI), a breakthrough technology that has caused a bull market in American stocks and which, many economists hope, will power a global productivity surge. Almost all big AI start-up companies are based in the Bay Area, which comprises the city of San Francisco and Silicon Valley (largely based in Santa Clara county, to the south). OpenAI is there, of course; so are Anthropic, Databricks and Scale AI. Tech giants, including Meta and Microsoft, are also spending big on AI in San Francisco. According to Brookings Metro, a think tank, last year San Francisco accounted for close to a tenth of generative AI job postings in America, more than any other city of the country. New York, with four times as many residents, was second. 


Internet: <www.economist.com> (adapted). 

Maintaining the original meaning and the grammatical correctness of text CB1A7, the word “burgeoning” (second sentence) could be replaced with 
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Q2433575
Inglês Adjetivos | Adjectives , Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions , Artigos | Articles , Pronomes | Pronouns , Verbos | Verbs
Ano: 2023 Banca: Instituto Ágata Órgão: Prefeitura de Medicilândia - PA Prova: Instituto Ágata - 2023 - Prefeitura de Medicilândia - PA - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
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Leia o trecho a seguir:


The Hardworking Family

John is a hardworking man. He always gets up early to work and to do all the things he has to do. Mary, John's wife, helps him and she usually spends a lot of time at work with John. John works all the time.

John and Mary have three children who often complain that their parents work too much and seldom enjoy life. They say, "Dad, you and Mom should take a break from work and try to have some fun. You never relax."

John's answer is: "Sometimes I think of taking a vacation, but who will pay our bills?". Mary agrees with John and says that someday their children will understand the situation.


(Adaptado de: <https://www.englishexperts.com.br>. Acesso em: 9 jun. 2023.)


Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a classe gramatical das palavras em destaque no texto:

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Q2431294
Inglês Verbos | Verbs , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: Prefeitura de Novo Cabrais - RS Prova: FUNDATEC - 2023 - Prefeitura de Novo Cabrais - RS - Professor De Inglês |
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Sorry for the delayed response


01 Have ___ (1) e-mail you’ve been meaning (but not really) to reply to? Read below for some

02 reasons why your response has been delayed:

03 • I totally meant to respond to this earlier, but I didn’t know ___ (2) answer to your question

04 and I kept not caring enough to ask anyone. Now ___ (3) weird amount of time has passed,

05 so I’m going to loop Laura (cc’d) into this e-mail thread to see if she can handle this. Laura?

06 • Sorry for ___ (4) delay! I put off answering your e-mail until I had ___ (5) even more tedious

07 task that I wanted to avoid. Thanks!

08 • So sorry that I’m just getting to this now. There were six other people on this e-mail thread

09 and I was hoping that one of them would answer your question and I could just go on living

10 my life.


(Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CsHm2YnteFa/ – text especially adapted for this test).

Analyze the following excerpt from the text: “(...) your response has been delayed” (l. 02). Mark the alternative below that shows the sentence correctly rewritten in an interrogative structure and in the same verb tense.

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Respostas
1: B
2: D
3: B
4: C
5: C
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