One could write a good story on the premise of an alien race who comes to Earth after the loss of their home planet. The aliens then attempt to reactivate dormant submarine volcanoes to create a new continent for themselves in the Pacific Ocean.
Brains as we know it die, cannot replicate, and take years or decades to train. Hard drives can be duplicated and loaded into memory with no limit.
Biology and biological intelligence is a bootstrapping mechanism - a "hard step" [1] or two - leading up to the next stage in the evolution and proliferation of intelligence.
All of our science fiction centers on humans, because we write stories about ourselves and what we're familiar with. But that's just fantasy. The future probably looks nothing like what we portray in our films and books.
[1] https://grabbyaliens.com/paper describes hard steps well and also covers other interesting implications
You need a deeper purpose our you would not be there.
Like doing it just for fun or something. :-)