No need to give an AI survival goals. As you alluded to in your original comment, survival is simply an instrumental goal - one that comes from our only actual objective (if you subscribe to the selfish gene idea): pass on genetic information.

As soon as you give a sufficiently intelligent artificial intelligence any…

A really good review.

I’ve got one of these. Doesn’t look like ass. Comfy. Holds my laptop.

You can. Bosch or Siemens Home Connect ovens both do that with Alexa or Google Home through IFTTT. Full disclosure: I work for BSH, but they are honestly really good!

What if your ‘lying eyes’ don’t work? Lots of these smart home things (in particular voice control or ‘flashing lights when your oven is finished’) seem like gimics or frivolity, but can be genuinely life changing for the blind or deaf consumer.

Oxford Uni have been doing ‘room temperature’ quantum computing for some time now, using laser cooling and totally ridiculous vacuums. I’ve actually seen the gear. It is, slightly ironically, very cool indeed. The link below is from four years ago - couldn’t find a more recent one.
I also don’t think the question of…

For future reference, ‘pussy’ isn’t “slang for female genitalia [used for the purposes of an] as an insult”; it’s actually an abbreviation of a word which means lacking courage: pusillanimous (from the Latin pusillus ‘very small’ and animus ‘mind’, in case you’re interested).