That would be uncool indeed, but in purely scientific terms, it’s a waste of time. Man has just proved in fact, that we can accelerate light faster then it’s natural form. How long do you think it will be before we insert AI into a proton, beam it many times the speed of light (causing it to become multidimensional or blink into a new dimension, wormhole) and explore the entire universe and be back at the very second it left? A couple hundred years, five hundred?
Exploration of space via ships and whatnot are a pure waste of money at this point. And the question of life on other planets? By the time we get there with ‘spaceships’ we probably won’t care about them. Personally, I would rather invest in exploring our ocean and learning about new forms of life there first.
Repeat after me: science fiction is not reality. Science fiction is not science. Science fiction is fiction.