Although this comment is of course silly, this is a theme in Peter Watts' Echopraxia

I believe there are elements of this in A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge too.

Geee 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I haven't read this book, but there are a few books with a similar theme where a digital intelligence spreads throughout the universe. This is a variation on the idea with a somewhat plausible mechanism.

	▲	ghurtado 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		> lands into a training dataset somewhere and starts deploying itself. Leaving aside how incredibly vague this "mechanism" is, there is a very large list of infinitely unlikely coincidences that would have to take place for this to occur. Consider how often human software, built in the same planet, by the same race, on the same hardware and using the same language, during the same time period, with most of the same tools, fails to be compatible. Now take all those "same"s and change them to "different" and you tell me who's gonna file that Jira ticket.

▲

ghurtado 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Really? As in "intergalactic software virus"?