Virtual data streams
Assuming novel intelligence models would benefit from acquiring data beyond existing datasets and the internet, the natural progression could be incorporating perceptual data streams of agents in the physical and virtual worlds, with the latter being potentially more flexible and efficient. As the agents actively engage with the environment, this evolution could extend further into unknown representations and uncover a deeper state of the universe. Virtual agents could transcend existing physical constraints and discover the truth not necessarily accessible by human intelligence. The process of collecting new data might effectively spawn a new generation of intelligence and shift the balance towards the more abundant and efficient mode of the world, the virtual one.