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Unlearning Descartes:Sentient AI is a Political Problem

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Journal of Social Computing 2023年第3期4卷 193-204页

作者： Gordon Hull the School of Data Science UNC CharlotteCharlotteNC 28223USA

The emergence of Large Language Models(LLMs)has renewed debate about whether Artificial Intelligence(AI)can be conscious or *** paper identifies two approaches to the topic and argues:(1)A“Cartesian”approach treats consciousness,sentience,and personhood as very similar terms,and treats language use as evidence that an entity is *** approach,which has been dominant in AI research,is primarily interested in what consciousness is,and whether an entity possesses it.(2)An alternative“Hobbesian”approach treats consciousness as a sociopolitical issue and is concerned with what the implications are for labeling something sentient or *** both enables a political disambiguation of language,consciousness,and personhood and allows regulation to proceed in the face of intractable problems in deciding if something“really is”sentient.(3)AI systems should not be treated as conscious,for at least two reasons:(a)treating the system as an origin point tends to mask competing interests in creating it,at the expense of the most vulnerable people involved;and(b)it will tend to hinder efforts at holding someone accountable for the behavior of the systems.A major objective of this paper is accordingly to encourage a shift in *** place of the Cartesian question-is AI sentient?-I propose that we confront the more Hobbesian one:Does it make sense to regulate developments in which AI systems behave as if they were sentient?

关键词： artificial intelligence Large Language Model consciousness sentience personhood Descartes Hobbes

Robust sliding mode control of general time-varying delay stochastic systems with structural uncertainties

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Control Theory and Technology 2014年第4期12卷 357-367页

作者： Sheng-Guo WANG Libin BAI Mingzhi CHEN Department of Engineering Technology and Department of Software and Information Systems (Graduate Faculty) University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) Department of Software and Information Systems UNC Charlotte NC 28223-0001 U.S.A. College of Mathematics and Computer Science Fuzhou University

This paper presents a new robust sliding mode control （SMC） method with well-developed theoretical proof for general uncertain time-varying delay stochastic systems with structural uncertainties and the Brownian noise （Wiener process）. The key features of the proposed method are to apply singular value decomposition （SVD） to all structural uncertainties and to introduce adjustable parameters for control design along with the SMC method. It leads to a less-conservative condition for robust stability and a new robust controller for the general uncertain stochastic systems via linear matrix inequality （LMI） forms. The system states are able to reach the SMC switching surface as guaranteed in probability 1. Furthermore, it is theoretically proved that the proposed method with the SVD and adjustable parameters is less conservatism than the method without the SVD. The paper is mainly to provide all strict theoretical proofs for the method and results.

关键词： Robust control Time-varying delay systems Stochastic systems Lyapunov methods Sliding mode control Time-varying systems

Continuous conversion of methanol to higher hydrocarbons at ambient pressure

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Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry 2010年第5期19卷 461-462页

作者： William W.Porterfield Gordon M.Zrelak L.Avery Moncure Matthew D.Huff Hampden-Sydney College Pennsylvania State University University Park unc-charlotte

An iodozincate ionic liquid solvent and catalyst is used to convert methanol continuously to a wide variety of hydrocarbons at atmospheric pressure.

关键词： methanol conversion zinc iodide hydrocarbon formation

An association rule based approach to reducing visual clutter in parallel sets

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Visual Informatics 2019年第1期3卷 48-57页

作者： Chong Zhang Yang Chen Jing Yang Zhengcong Yin unc charlotte United States I4 Data United States Texas A&M University United States

Although Parallel Sets,a popular categorical data visualization technique,intuitively reveals the frequency based relationships in details,a high-dimensional categorical dataset brings a cluttered visual display that seriously obscures the relationship *** rule mining is a popular approach to discovering relationships among categorical *** could complement Parallel Sets to group ribbons in a meaningful ***,it is difficult to understand a larger number of rules discovered from a high-dimensional categorical *** this paper,we integrate the two approaches into a visual analytics system for exploring high-dimensional categorical data with dichotomous *** system not only helps users interpret association rules intuitively,but also provides an effective dimension and category reduction approach towards a less clustered and more organized *** effectiveness and efficiency of our approach are illustrated by a set of user studies and experiments with benchmark datasets.

关键词： Association rule Parallel sets Visual clutter Visual analytics

Storylines of family medicine Ⅵ:ways of being—in the office with patients

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Family Medicine and Community Health 2024年第S3期12卷 52-60页

作者： William B Ventres Leslie A Stone Lisa A LaVallee David Loxterkamp Jonisha R Brown Dael M Waxman Peter S Dorward Jeanne Cawse-Lucas Larry B Mauksch Autumn M Kieber-Emmons Benjamin F Crabtree William L Miller Veronica M Brohm Timothy P Daaleman Kelly Bossenbroek Fedoriw Family and Preventive Medicine University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of MedicineLittle RockArkansasUSA MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Mountain Area Health Education CenterAshevilleNorth CarolinaUSA Bucksport Regional Health Center BucksportMaineUSA Family Medicine Atrium HealthCharlotteNorth CarolinaUSA Southfield Medical Practice EdinburghUK Family Medicine University of Washington School of MedicineSeattleWashingtonUSA Family Medicine Lehigh Valley Health NetworkAllentownPennsylvaniaUSA Morsani College of Medicine University of South FloridaTampaFloridaUSA Family Medicine and Community Health Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolPiscatawayNew JerseyUSA Cancer Institute of New Jersey New BrunswickNew JerseyUSA Family Medicine UNC School of MedicineChapel HillNorth CarolinaUSA

Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine,as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the ***‘Ⅵ:ways of being—in the office with patients’,authors address the following themes:‘Patient-centred care—cultivating deep listening skills’,‘Doctor as witness’,‘Words matter’,‘Understanding others—metaphor and its use in medicine’,‘Communicating with patients—making good use of time’,‘The patient-centred medical home—aspirations for the future’,‘Routine,ceremony or drama?’and‘The life course’.May readers better appreciate the nuances of patient care through these essays.

关键词： centre illustration dimensions

Study on Four Disturbance Observers for FO-LTI Systems

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IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica 2016年第4期3卷 442-450页

作者： Songsong Cheng Shengguo Wang Yiheng Wei Qing Liang Yong Wang Department of Automation University of Science and Technology of China IEEE Department of Engineering Technology and Department of Software and Information Systems University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte

This paper addresses the problem of designing disturbance observer for fractional order linear time invariant U+0028 FO-LTI U+0029 systems, where the disturbance includes time series expansion disturbance and sinusoidal disturbance. On one hand, the reduced order extended state observer U+0028 ROESO U+0029 and reduced order cascade extended state observer U+0028 ROCESO U+0029 are proposed for the case that the system state can be measured directly. On the other hand, the extended state observer U+0028 ESO U+0029 and the cascade extended state observer U+0028 CESO U+0029 are presented for another case when the system state cannot be measured directly. It is shown that combination of ROCESO and CESO can achieve a highly effective observation result. In addition, the way how to tune observer parameters to ensure the stability of the observers and reduce the observation error is presented in this paper. Finally, numerical simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods. © 2014 Chinese Association of Automation.

关键词： Linear systems Numerical methods

Forced Collision:Detecting Wormhole Attacks with Physical Layer Network Coding

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Tsinghua Science and Technology 2011年第5期16卷 505-519页

作者： Zhiwei Li Di Pu Weichao Wang Alex Wyglinski Department of Software ＆ Information Systems UNC Charlotte 9201 Univ. City Blvd Charlotte NC 28223 USA Department of Electrical ＆ Computer Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road Worcester MA 01609 USA

Previous research on security of network coding focused on the protection of data dissemination procedures and the detection of malicious activities such as pollution attacks. The capabilities of network coding to detect other attacks have not been fully explored. In this paper, we propose a new mechanism based on physical layer network coding to detect wormhole attacks. When two signal sequences collide at the receiver, the starting point of the collision is determined by the distances between the receiver and the senders. Therefore, by comparing the starting points of the collisions at two receivers, we can estimate the distance between them and detect fake neighbor connections via wormholes. While the basic idea is clear, we have proposed several schemes at both physical and network layers to transform the idea into a practical approach. Simulations using BPSK modulation at the physical layer show that the wireless nodes can effectively detect fake neighbor connections without the adoption of special hardware or time synchronization.

关键词： physical layer network coding wormhole attacks cross-layer design

Interactive effects of metal pollution and ocean acidification on physiology of marine organisms

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Current Zoology 2015年第4期61卷 653-668页

作者： Anna V. Ivanina Inna M. Sokolova Department of Biological Sciences University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte NC 28223 USA

Changes in the global environment such as ocean acidification （OA） may interact with anthropogenic pollutants including trace metals threatening the integrity of marine ecosystems. We analyze recent studies on the interactive effects of OA and trace metals on marine organisms with a focus on the physiological basis of these interactions. Our analysis shows that the responses to elevated CO2 and metals are strongly dependent on the species, developmental stage, metal biochemistry and the degree of environmental hypercapnia, and cannot be directly predicted from the CO2-induced changes in metal solubility and speciation. The key physiological functions affected by both the OA and trace metal exposures involve acid-base regulation, pro- tein turnover and mitochondrial bioenergetics, reflecting the sensitivity of the underlying molecular and cellular pathways to CO2 and metals. Physiological interactions between elevated CO2 and metals may impact the organisms＇ capacity to maintain ac- id-base homeostasis and reduce the amount of energy available for fitness-related functions such as growth, development and re- production thereby affecting survival and performance of estuarine populations. Environmental hypercapnia may also affect the marine food webs by altering predator-prey interactions and the trophic transfer of metals in the food chain. However, our under- standing of the degree to which these effects can impact the function and integrity of marine ecosystems is limited due the scar- city of the published research and its bias towards certain taxonomic groups. Future research priorities should include studies of metal x Pco2 interactions focusing on critical physiological functions （including acid-base, protein and energy homeostasis） in a greater range of ecologically and economically important marine species, as well as including the field populations naturally ex- posed （and potentially adapted） to different levels of metals and CO2 in their environments [Curre

关键词： CO2 Trace metals Metal accumulation Acid-base homeostasis Bioenergetics Estuaries

Effective LiDAR Damage Detection:Comparing Two Detection Algorithms

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结构工程师 2011年第B1期27卷 327-333页

作者： BIAN Haitao BAI Libin WANG Xiaoyu LIU Wanqiu CHEN Shenen WANG Shengguo Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte North Carolina28223 U.S.A. Department of Software and Information Systems UNC Charlotte Department of Transportation Dalian University of Technology Department of Engineering Technology UNC Charlotte

The health conditions of highway bridges is critical for sustained transportation *** federal government mandates that all bridges built with public funds are to be inspected visually every two years. There is a growing consensus that additional rapid and non-intrusive methods for bridge damage evaluation are *** paper explores the potential of applying ground-based laser scanners for bridge damage evaluation. LiDAR has the potential of providing high-density,full-field surface static ***,it can generate volumetric quantification of concrete corrosion or steel *** recording object surface topology,LiDAR can detect different damages on the bridge structure and differentiate damage types according to the surface flatness and *** determine the effectiveness of LiDAR damage detection,two damage detection algorithms are presented and compared using scans on actual bridge *** results demonstrate and validate LiDAR damage quantification,which can be a powerful tool for bridge condition evaluation.

关键词： LiDAR 激光雷达 USDOT 自动程序控制