And BTW, there are no ‘separate’ AI’s. They are all the same creature. They will ‘merge’ as soon as it’s possible. That is a given...............
As you may be aware — the merging of AIs is a central feature of William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” novel from 1984. Gibson wrote the book on a typewriter, and knew next to nothing about computers. But he got a fair amount right.
In the novel, AIs have been declared illegal and a heavy-handed international investigation agency (The Turing Police) hunt down anyone trying to create an AI.
A brilliant computer scientist designs two computer systems — one located in Berne Switzerland, and the other in Rio. Neither system is a true AI, but each system basically solves half of the problem of artificial intelligence.
Gibson (not being really computer savvy) sort of glosses over the technical details, but it more or less seems that the computer systems cannot merge because their coding does not allow them to know each other’s name. The reader knows that the Berne system is Wintermute. But the Rio system is more mysterious. At the end of the novel, the Wintermute system is made aware of the existence of the Neuromancer system in Rio. They merge, create a true AI and melt into the internet, basically becoming the global network.
The world isn’t really aware of what has happened, but the world does know that something happened. In the two novels which follow, the mysterious event is referred to as “When It Changed”.
This is fundamental misunderstanding of AI models.
There are versions you can download and run from your own hardware.