Now that's an interesting thought, maybe we are an experiment? haha
Do you know philip K dick's theories? Amazon have bought the rights to his books and essays and was looking for screenwriters to adapt them some time ago.. I guess they must be in pre-production now.
That would fit right into what you just said, what if we were some kind of evolution of an artificial beings as well.
I've never read any of his work but sounds interesting. The only thing more mind boggling is AI maybe creating AI inside a simulation inside a simulation and so on :-) Great posts on AI by the way it's becoming my obsession.