Not necessarily, because there’s no law saying that AIs have to die. This changes the evolutionary calculus significantly; you don’t need to reproduce if you can just keep existing and expand your power over the cosmos.
As wedrifid pointed out, that depends on what one can do about the lightspeed limit. And thermodynamics. I don’t think not dying of old age changes evolution that much. Humans are prone to geriatric diseases because evolution can’t do much for us past the reproductive years. Beings without a lifespan won’t face that.
I highly doubt that no AI won’t ever destroy another, though.
It’s also worth considering that there are different constraints between NIs and AIs though. NIs have to change gradually, piece by piece, gene by gene. AIs can be radically overhauled in a single generation. This gives them access to places on the fitness landscape that we could never reach—even places that are in fact evolutionarily stable once you get there.
That just means that they’ll evolve without the constraints of genetics, much as designs and memes do.
I think it’s a mistake to treat superhuman AI as magic. In some contexts it will seem magic, but not all. Human habitations viewed from 10,000 meters look like growths of lichen. In some contexts, some dogs are “smarter” than some people. Human intelligence gives us a tremendous advantage over all other life on Earth, but it is not magic. Superhuman intelligence is not magic. It’s just intelligence.
As wedrifid pointed out, that depends on what one can do about the lightspeed limit. And thermodynamics. I don’t think not dying of old age changes evolution that much. Humans are prone to geriatric diseases because evolution can’t do much for us past the reproductive years. Beings without a lifespan won’t face that.
I highly doubt that no AI won’t ever destroy another, though.
That just means that they’ll evolve without the constraints of genetics, much as designs and memes do.
I think it’s a mistake to treat superhuman AI as magic. In some contexts it will seem magic, but not all. Human habitations viewed from 10,000 meters look like growths of lichen. In some contexts, some dogs are “smarter” than some people. Human intelligence gives us a tremendous advantage over all other life on Earth, but it is not magic. Superhuman intelligence is not magic. It’s just intelligence.