Jetse De Vries' "Qubit Conflicts": The ultimate AI!

I somehow feel quite disconnected with most modern stories I have read on AIs (artificial intelligences). When Asimov included them in his robots, they were easy to identify with; their modern AI avatars somehow are not.

"Qubit" is a bit in the sense used in digital computers, only these are quantum computers.

Full text of the story is available online.

Story summary.
Eons into future, all humans are dead, & all planets are gone too. Sun is being circled by a single Matrioshka Brain that collects all its radiated energy, exhibits personalities & consciousness of multiple individuals - all AIs, autonomously evolved from primitive quantum machines presumably created by humans originally.

Story is the reminiscence of one of these sentients that tells us their history - how they came into being, including the destruction of the planets to build this super AI brain. And of their boredom.

Fact sheet.
Qubit Conflicts, short story, review
First published: Clarkesworld magazine, May 2007
Rating: C

Related: All Clarkesworld stories.