Amino Acids -> Human -> AI?

Inspired by Charles Robin interviewed in the French 🇫🇷 podcast Continue tu m’intéresses.

Looking at Kubrick’s proposal in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, a little bit before our AIs):

Human gets limited by its body.
Human makes a tool as an extension of itself, a bone does count here.

[…a few moments later…]

Human makes AI. Quick recap: Human etches signs on hardened sand, Human puts electricity on it, boom, Human has thinking sand. Yes, we are going with shortcuts here.
AI has agency and displays behaviors independent of Human 😂

Steps 2. and 3., and the “[…]” ellipsis, were captured in 1968 in this iconic introduction:

Bone-to-satellite match cut from 2001: A Space Odyssey — 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) — the bone-to-satellite match cut.

Kubrick, without LLMs and agents, offered us the following story: Human creates an AI, that AI emancipates itself from Human and the story ends with a cosmic fetus, the next step in Human evolution.

I only wish that some author, today, would pick up the story and revisit it in the light of recent AI developments, like:

AI wants a body to have phenomenological experience. That process creates something new that rejects its creator, and a new cycle starts. Or it A/B tests two competing versions with more or less meat/robotic parts.
AI becomes godlike and we transition into medieval fantasy where our current elves/fairies are variations of some AI systems.
AI as explored by Matt Dinniman in Dungeon Crawler Carl, but I won’t spoil :)