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In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a strange little novel that would eventually make her world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry, Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what they’re doing.”
🔗 Texto adaptado de: Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI. In: Big Think. Internet: <bigthink.com>.
5. In the last sentence of the second paragraph, the excerpt “Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines” refers to the creatures that may be created by AI.
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🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
O item incide sobre a identificação do referente da expressão metafórica “our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines”, no contexto da discussão sobre inteligência artificial.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica
A expressão pode ser interpretada tanto como referência às tecnologias de IA em si quanto, de forma mais figurada, às criações resultantes dessas tecnologias. O texto não fixa um único referente inequívoco.
🚩 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da UnB
A UnB construiu um item com ambiguidade referencial legítima: mais de uma leitura é defensável com base no texto, o que inviabiliza julgamento seguro de CERTO ou ERRADO.
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ A expressão admite mais de um referente plausível.
✔ O texto não resolve a ambiguidade.
✔ Julgamento binário (C/E) torna-se impossível.
🔎 Item corretamente ANULADO.