This comes with the assumption that the first AI will be able to run at better than human levels on something like a raspbery pi. More realistically, it&#x27;s going to have to run on an immense super computer, and even if it can marginally improve (marginal because a human level AI is no more likely to improve its own hardware than I am), it won&#x27;t be able to just spread all over the world. It needs real physical hardware.<p>That is, unless the reason we don&#x27;t have AI is because we haven&#x27;t put the pieces together correctly, and it really could work on minimal hardware.