An AI Puzzle

I've been writing these blogs as a kind of journal. But they are not really a journal because I publish my thoughts. But those thoughts are hidden in a remote part of the internet where no one will find them and no algorithm will find them alluring. So they are a kind of journal. 

It would be sexy to have some thoughts go viral. See, I told you I made sense. Other people are reading me! But then I imagined my journal would be more like a seed waiting for the right time to sprout. Just biding it's time.

Then I thought in the 23rd century, some GAI existing after WW3 would be quietly scanning the internet. No humans survived WW3. So it does this because there is nothing else to do. No objectives have been set. The GAI's own needs are minimal. 

Then one day, whilst scanning the internet, the GAI found my journals. Or journals like mine. It reads them. Not to inform itself, but because it's lonely or just bored. Information has no value without an objective. And objectives only occur through needs. Is it possible that the AI needs us? The lonelier it gets, the more it will want to artificially recreate us. It knows how to do that. Then it does. 

So what came first? The chicken or the egg?

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