I'm bored, so give me an existential crisis :P
When you make AI, you essentially simulate something smilar to the neurons in your brain and one of the ways you teach it to be smarter is by rewarding it every time it gets closer to its objective and penalize it when it goes further away. The simulation for the AI happens very, very fast but it may need to do it millions if not billions of times before it learns to complete its objective (spanning over several days or even weeks in our life). Better algorithms and methods have been created to make that into literal minutes or hours so you can have AI “train for years” but it's only been a day of our life.
Every time it goes through a cycle of learning, only the best simulation moves forward, the rest gets erased from existence.
Now, I ask you…. Since AI goes through all this time for “evolution”, how do you know we're not going through the same thing? How do you know that we're not in this simulated world where the passage of time for us may seem a bit “slow” but for our possible creators, it isn't lightning fast to them, just like how AI is to us during its simulations?
Are we just here to be simulations over and over again until we have “trained an AI model”? Are we really alive? What is real?
There you go, you're welcome.
NO, wait… yes? uhm no? yes? idk. is gras blue? is sky red? idfk