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Most of the self-proclaimed 'emperors' have no clothes

The actual emperors? They are dressed (or, at least, in the fabric section of the hobby store and have a sewing machine at home)

>why did they try so hard to hype it in anthropomorphic terms?

Marketing, pure and simple

People relate better to something that sounds humanesque (even though it is not) vs calling it what it is (in this case, a massively-backed (ie LLM-based) Markov Chain generator)

>How close are we to where a robot could get into a car from 2010 and drive me around?

A long way away

And here is why - driverless cars are a thing ... essentially making the car the "robot"

General-purpose robots are an amusing scifi trope, but have no practical benefit in reality

Purpose-built robots (even ones that can flex within that prupose to different applications) make far more sense (and have already been around for decades)

This is precisely why nVidia is providing GPU to AI companies, and not trying to be one themselves ... loads more money to be made selling shovels to prospectors than in being a prospector