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As new technologies take on increasingly humanlike qualities, there’s been a push to make them genderless. Apple’s Siri digital assistant unveiled a gender-neutral option last year
Semântica e Significado de Vocábulos (Semantics)
CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2023
There have been concerns over gendering technology, since doing so reinforces societal stereotypes. That happens because the stereotypes commonly associated with men, such as competitiveness and dominance, are more valued than those associated with women. That is likely true, says Ashley Martin, a professor at Stanford University. “People are stereotyping their gendered objects in very traditional ways,” she says.
Removing gender from the picture altogether seems like a simple way to fix this. Yet, as Martin has found in her latest research, conducted with Malia Mason, of Columbia Universty, gender is one of the fundamental ways people form connections with objects, particularly those designed to evoke human characteristics.
Throughout the experiments, Martin and Mason found that gender increased users’ feelings of attachment to devices such as digital voice assistants –– and their interest in purchasing them. For example, participants said they would be less likely to buy a genderless voice assistant than versions with male or female voices.
Hope Reese. Is That Self-Driving Car a Boy or a Girl? In: Insights by Stanford Business. Internet: (adapted).
Judge the following item, related to the vocabulary and to the grammar in the precedent text.
In the first paragraph, the word “humanlike” can be correctly replaced by humane without this changing the meaning relations in the paragraph.
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Comentário: A substituição da palavra "humanlike" por "humane" está errada porque os significados dos termos são diferentes. "Humanlike" refere-se a características que imitam ou são semelhantes aos humanos, enquanto "humane" se refere a compaixão e bondade em relação a seres humanos e animais. Portanto, trocar essas palavras altera o sentido da frase, pois a ideia original é sobre tecnologias que apresentam qualidades semelhantes às humanas, e não sobre ser bondoso ou compassivo.
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