The “end of the universe” can happen in some ways. One of them is the “big freeze”—the galaxies may go far from each other, the starts may die, and so on. In that way, there is no reason why the AI can’t “live forever”—it might be a big computer float in the space, far away from anything, and it will be close system so the energy won’t run away.
To make useful computations, AI still needs temperature difference, and it will lose energy by cooling. However, some think that in very cold universe computations will be much more efficient (up to 10 power 30 times) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03394
It’s worth noting that the aestivation hypothesis might have been predicated on a misunderstanding. See this paper for a response:https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06730
Well, its not possible today, but why hypothetical its impossible? If the system is float in the vacuum heat wont go out. Then the only problem is to transform the heat to energy again, and it might be possible someday, I guess.
The “end of the universe” can happen in some ways. One of them is the “big freeze”—the galaxies may go far from each other, the starts may die, and so on. In that way, there is no reason why the AI can’t “live forever”—it might be a big computer float in the space, far away from anything, and it will be close system so the energy won’t run away.
To make useful computations, AI still needs temperature difference, and it will lose energy by cooling. However, some think that in very cold universe computations will be much more efficient (up to 10 power 30 times) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03394
However, it is not “immortal AI”.
It’s worth noting that the aestivation hypothesis might have been predicated on a misunderstanding. See this paper for a response: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06730
Well, its not possible today, but why hypothetical its impossible? If the system is float in the vacuum heat wont go out. Then the only problem is to transform the heat to energy again, and it might be possible someday, I guess.
What we know now about thermodynamics, tells us that it is impossible, but some ideas exist like reversible computations.
Got it. Thanks!
The heat won’t escape by conduction, nor will it escape by convection. However, it will escape via radiation.
Useful work consumes negentropy. A closed system can only do so much useful work. (However, reversible computations may not require work.)