this is a thing; trying to get AI to paint; placement of the brush is a problem & color selection; they fed images of art into a computer & out emerged a print; that it plainly ***** should tell them to move on to other things like intersteller travel, send a robot that feeds on the algorithms of the instruments; self- programming instrumentality & aware of its surroundings & able to innovate; when the capsule or station discovered & explored by some wide-eyed space alien, they will encounter a mechanical monster programmed by space itself into a superhuman genius bent on war