Dark’s answer to “Is this set inside a computer game, with the titular bunny being an AI? ...Or is the setting a gen…” > Likes and Comments

Ha! I kind of meant superintelligent as in super-intelligent *for a bunny*... I didn't mean Einstein, or post-human superbeing intelligent! ...I'd read "Artificial Jelly" by Dustin Graham, and "Trailblazer" & "Innovator" by Zen DiPietro, and (going by the sample chapter of Dungeon Bunny on Amazon) both start out with a very similar feel and setup, of a simple NPC in a fantasy world who gradually gains self awareness and motivation to grow into something more... But in both those books (and probably many others in a similar vein I'm sure) the characters are *explicitly* inside a MMORPG (multi-player computer game), and they're A.I.s ...even though they initially don't realize it. This quickly becomes important for the context in which the reader understands the story, and later on it becomes an explicit and important part of the plot (a "this isn't the real world, you're not who/what you think you are" kind of thing), even when all, or nearly all, the action is still happening in an in-game setting. I like the sci-fi angle, and actually a realistically-simulated computer game world really would provide a *perfect* test environment for a prototype AI (so much easier than building robots, plus they get to interact with humans who might assume they're human too, in that setting!), so for me, personally, that becomes much more interesting than just a magic-weilding fantasy animal story. (But YMMV). Hence my question.