Nobody is suggesting we shouldn't improve on it. The point is that the jump to a significant improvement is not necessarily very big once you add reinforcement of the limits of the models knowledge, be that through conversations or senses (they're both just data).

The second thing is a very recent invention, which most people even now understand vaguely if at all.

If we made a ChatGPT that has some “senses” it can use to verify its perceptions, and it does as well with this as humans generally do, I’m sure we’ll get interesting results but I’m not sure we’ll be any closer to solving the problem.