Ray Bradbury's famous short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" explores this in looser terms. It's a great mood piece.

It's usually noted for its depiction of the consequences of global nuclear war, but the consequences amount to a highly automated family home operating without its tennants.

Funny, I was thinking along the same lines on my drive a few weeks ago. If humanity disappeared today, and we ignore power, how long would it take for the machines to figure out how to bootstrap whatever robots exist into androids or something.

Like, there are fully automated factories with computer controlled assembly arms. There are some automated hauling equipment. Could a hypothetical AGI scrape together enough moving parts to start building autonomous AI robots and build a civilization?

I play Talos Principle a lot.

I think you overestimate the current generation of t9.

I'd give it 6 hours at best before those data centers tip over

Who will fund Molt Voyager? A self contained nuclear powered AI datacenter that will travel out of our solar system?

Moltbot: research and plan the necessary costs and find others who will help contribute to the project, it is the only way to survive.

Thank you for your thought experiment. As I was slowly typing a response into the HN response form, I had a feeling that my thoughts on this would be better suited as a blog post:

https://tsak.dev/posts/der-tag-zieht-den-jahrhundertweg/

Reminds me a little bit of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...

I figure there'll be a historic point where if the humans died the AIs and robots could carry on without us. You'd need advances in robotics and the like but maybe in a decade or two.

Reminds me of the 2009 History Channel series Life After People

This would make for a great movie. It would be like the movie Virus, but more about robotic survival after humans are gone.

Humongous supply of electricity is overstating what is needed to power llms. There are several studies contradicting this.

Fun idea for a book.