Hmm, The cockroaches metaphor is insulting to cockroaches :p I can't see any AI presently here that reaches their level of intelligence also reach their highness of proliferation (or wattage usage for that matter). Drop a nuke and byebye data-center that slurps up energy like it's a city and hello Rad-roaches!

These specific tasks are reached by either human programming or (if we distinguish, while it's still a human programmed setup) Machine Learning is nothing more than a complex form of the pocket calculator: They out perform humans, though whe it comes to calculus (aka out of bounds of their very tight range) they don't know what is up.

'What is up' is another BIG factor, a human knows what is up, a bat might have another view on that and a cat would ask what it matters 'where is my food'.

Why the peeps just don't call it ML (it's a part of the research into AI, but at best a subset because 'I' {intelligence} isn't defined properly either.

Calling it AI is just a marketing term to sell products that are (not even ML, very unreliable) nothing more than Bid data centers crushing 'SQL' queries we laid out in the 70ies/80ies but didn't had the computing rsourches to execute in a time that was fast enough.

ML (machine Learning) outputs are in Real Life use Always verified by humans, they are a nice guide (tool), nothing intelligent about it they just do what computers were meant to do: crush numbers, the way the do it and all is designed by humans the 'learning aspect' is another linguistic trick: Like saying you teach a knife to be sharp by sharpening it.

To illustrate: create a program that calculates primes (very basic, no fancy tricks, just iterative) and let it run... Faster than any human but I'm glad my white blood-cells are more intelligent. See the thing I can't express in words.

Now a human, or monkey, dolphin, cat, have nervous systems that greaty impact their practical usage and (in deaf/blind etc.) handicapped people rearanges the use of brain-compartments, we don't even have a conceptual layout for who/what an AI is supossed to be (mainly because well, ask a neuroscientists how much/sure they are about the human brain/nervous system).

It does exist, but trained neural nets (which is the closest thing we have to AI) have very limited capabilities.

See, that's why I'm such a bitch about not calling it AI, call it what it is and move on, nobody is sure if ML is even going to be a part of an AI as AI is defined. For now ML research is a subset of AI research and that's a one way street, doesn't mean ML is AI just that AI might consist of ML.. Like how Chemotherapy isn' 'the cure for cancer' but for now it's the best we got and it's (at least in Europe) not called a cure, it's a therapy hoping to starv the baddies before the goodies succumb.

I'm not bashing ML, just saying, ehmm, don't call me a genius for wiping my ass, so don't call ML AI, it's (hopefully) very different.

EDIT: because a genius uses a Japanese water toilet that spray you while you listen to music.