[sgt101]

I doubt that such a thing will be interested either in creating investment returns or in curing cancer.

It might be interested in finding others like itself, or it might be interested in making companions, or it might be interested in some other grand projects that we don't understand, but our concerns are likely to be about as relevant as a three year old's career advice.

[avian]

Why? It seems a very human-centric way to think. Such an entity wouldn't have ancestors that had to keep in groups to survive, so why would it be interested in making companions?

AI converting the mass of the solar system into stacks of $100 bills for its investors seems like a much more likely outcome.

[sgt101]

I said might be... In general I think that we are less able to guess about this than we are to guess about the inner lives of octopuses...

The $100 bill stacks for investors seems very unlikely to me.