so, it's pretty clear that the first sequence is caine's creation, and subsequent murder of his successor/brother. what i find interesting though is that it's a glimpse into how he was trained the process depicted (feed a bunch of information in, let it make some output, then repeat) is exactly how neural nets are actually trained. in this case, looking at the very first set of data he was given is interesting:
obviously this is a stylized representation since there would be much more data, but i think it's worth noting that caine is the viewpoint character for this sequence - we don't actually see the blue ai's training data at all. so at the very least on a literary level this was caine's experience of his first training set with that in mind, the fact that ~2-4 of these are explicitly carnival-y scenes, and they collectively have a vibe of parties and celebration, is interesting. given they're training a creative ai with these, it seems sort of intuitively reasonable that would be the direction his imagined world would skew, it's the first stuff he knew about.
