Neg-entropy
short explanation of neg-entropy
Neg-entropy is an idea that turns often in my head.
It might be my Belgian side as it is a Belgian physicist who received the nobel prize for the idea that localised negative entropy existed.
I can't come up with his name now -- it sounds russian in origin, that's all I remember.
Anyhoo, localised negative entropy -- so recreation of order that is slowly dissipating into disorder usually -- is something that life does really well.
The main idea is that out of energy released by other stuff, life recreates some order. Complexity gets to last a little bit longer than if nothing would have taken the heat of the sun.
I'm thinking of neg-entropy because LLMs and AI are information processing machines, a bit like life is.
Indeed, for life to be more efficient at transforming left-overs into interesting stuff, it uses information, a reception + understanding of the world to act in better ways.
So AI could make us even more efficient at transformation. That's the hope. Yet AI at the moment consumes quite a lot of energy and material resources.
Is it worth it ?
It might be a bit life mothers in nature that are eating quite a lot. Maybe it is worth it.
It might also be rather like a plant that is too efficient and killing everything around it until it dies itself.
The idea continutes anyway
It might be my Belgian side as it is a Belgian physicist who received the nobel prize for the idea that localised negative entropy existed.
I can't come up with his name now -- it sounds russian in origin, that's all I remember.
Anyhoo, localised negative entropy -- so recreation of order that is slowly dissipating into disorder usually -- is something that life does really well.
The main idea is that out of energy released by other stuff, life recreates some order. Complexity gets to last a little bit longer than if nothing would have taken the heat of the sun.
I'm thinking of neg-entropy because LLMs and AI are information processing machines, a bit like life is.
Indeed, for life to be more efficient at transforming left-overs into interesting stuff, it uses information, a reception + understanding of the world to act in better ways.
So AI could make us even more efficient at transformation. That's the hope. Yet AI at the moment consumes quite a lot of energy and material resources.
Is it worth it ?
It might be a bit life mothers in nature that are eating quite a lot. Maybe it is worth it.
It might also be rather like a plant that is too efficient and killing everything around it until it dies itself.
The idea continutes anyway