Or how long the AI would "survive" on it's own. Just give it some capital, agency to autonomously offer services, sell and buy, and then tell it "off you go, no work for your data centers, for the electrical power and the cooling water".
I am not even going to say "bet it fails". This would not be a fair bet.
And if cannot fend for itself, I don't recognize it as intelligent.
@glitzersachen 
@glyph so there have been a few responses to this thread focusing on operational requirements of the "AI"— the data center, admining the Linux distro etc. That isn't even the part that stands out to me. I'm curious about what portion of *the work of the AI itself*, the work the AI software *takes credit for*, is the uncredited work of humans employed directly by the "AI" company— requiring an ongoing labor spend to maintain the (unimpressive) level of quality the product offers.
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