I read not long ago, when looking at some theories of why we haven’t found alien life yet and the Great Filter, something hypothesizing that ingelligent organic life might not be the “end state” in its own right, but rather the egg that hatches a new AI.
In your game, it could be interesting encountering AIs created by different species, where the organic species no longer exist but the AIs they gave “birth” to did. I imagine there might be ways in which they are very different (in how they act/what they do) than a human-created AI.
Initially, the sentient machines would be like their designers. Once the machines are allowed to develop organically for several generations, they should be able to find their own way of doing things. For instance, in Matrix we saw machines that were thoroughly alien, because they were designed by machines.
Many generations later, these machines might encounter machine descendants of another long lost biological empire. Would they be vastly different, or would they converge on the one obvious way of making sentient machines? Who knows. Galaxies and orbits tend to be disk shaped, because that’s the obvious stable configuration things gravitate towards. Maybe intelligence and sentience has to follow a similar force of nature, and therefore, convergences on just one successful configuration.
I read not long ago, when looking at some theories of why we haven’t found alien life yet and the Great Filter, something hypothesizing that ingelligent organic life might not be the “end state” in its own right, but rather the egg that hatches a new AI.
In your game, it could be interesting encountering AIs created by different species, where the organic species no longer exist but the AIs they gave “birth” to did. I imagine there might be ways in which they are very different (in how they act/what they do) than a human-created AI.
Initially, the sentient machines would be like their designers. Once the machines are allowed to develop organically for several generations, they should be able to find their own way of doing things. For instance, in Matrix we saw machines that were thoroughly alien, because they were designed by machines.
Many generations later, these machines might encounter machine descendants of another long lost biological empire. Would they be vastly different, or would they converge on the one obvious way of making sentient machines? Who knows. Galaxies and orbits tend to be disk shaped, because that’s the obvious stable configuration things gravitate towards. Maybe intelligence and sentience has to follow a similar force of nature, and therefore, convergences on just one successful configuration.