Comment by falcor84

A "state of the art" system would almost by definition be running on special and expensive hardware. But I have llama3 running on my laptop, and it would have been considered state of the art less than 2 years ago.

A related point to consider is that a superintelligence should be considered a better coder than us, so the risk isn't only directly from it "copying" itself, but also from it "spawning" and spreading other, more optimized (in terms of resources utilization) software that would advance its goals.