Comment by tjr

If all humans were suddenly wiped off the face of the earth, AI would go silent, and the hardware it runs on would eventually shut down.

If all AI was suddenly wiped off the face of the earth, humans would rebuild it, and would carry on fine in the meantime.

One AI researcher decades ago said something to the effect of: researchers in biology look at living organisms and wonder how they live; researchers in physics look at the cosmos and wonder what all is out there; researchers in artificial intelligence look at computer systems and wonder how they can be made to wonder such things.