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Well, if it has the ability to clean a bathroom, similar systems could cook, clean, drive, construct, do pretty much any routine task—that sounds like a lot of jobs to me. Now, could a lizard-level intelligence clean a randomly chosen bathroom? Said robot would have to have a lot of common sense notions of how to treat objects, very good visual perception, proprioception, and object classification, even the ability to use tools. That sounds more around higher mammel intelligence to me. As I haven’t spent my life studying AI, I’m perfectly willing to replace my opinion on this with your own, but I’m having trouble seeing how cleaning a randomly-chosen bathroom is a lizard-level task.
If a generally lizard-level intelligence were hooked to a petabyte database of special cases scraped by slightly smarter algorythms from security footage of previous bathroom cleanings, it could do it. This isn't how an AI theorist would attempt the problem, but it is more or less how Google translate works, and quite possibly how the first bachelor-bathroom-cleaning robot will work. Such an AI would be nowhere near capable of self-improvement.
I don't see why a lizard-level intelligence would necessary not be able to self-improve.
In this case... because all its domain expertise is in getting the dirt off the tiles, and it would not recognize code or hardware if accompanied by explanatory placards.