Thomas Wolf 从宇宙尺度谈智能成本下降
在宇宙历史的尺度上，智能价格的下降可能是正在发生的最深刻的事情之一。
宇宙时间线的两端都没有知识：
- 大爆炸：低熵，没有复杂结构。
- 热寂：熵达到最大，没有可用的能量梯度。
我们构建的一切，都发生在两者之间的斜坡上。
但总体而言，宇宙并不擅长把自由能转化为有建设性的事物。它的大部分自由能只是以热的形式辐射出去，或者坍缩进黑洞。
生命、大脑，以及如今的 AI 模型，都是处于熵流之中的结构。它们把其中一部分引向具有建设性的路径，构建并维持低熵结构，例如机器、细胞、晶体和记忆。
越来越便宜的智能，把越来越多的梯度流引导到能够构建知识的结构中。这些结构复杂、能够自我维持、具有预测能力，充实着理解得以存在的那段时间窗口。
对照原文
on the scale of cosmic history, the declining price of intelligence might be one of the most profound things happening both ends of the universe’s timeline are empty of knowledge: - the big bang: low entropy, no complex structure - heat death: maximum entropy, no usable energy gradients everything we build happens on the slope between them but the universe is generally a poor converter of its free energy into anything constructive. most of its free energy just radiates away as heat or collapses into black holes life, brains and now AI models are structures that sit in the entropy flow and divert a portion of it through constructive paths, building and maintaining low-entropy structures (machines, cells, crystals, memories) increasingly cheaper intelligence diverts increasingly more of that gradient flow through knowledge-building structures, complex, self-maintaining, predictive structures, filling the window in which understanding exists