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Except current AI tech is on track to being what we need for robots. Many companies do so already, and AIs have been used for socialization by the general public. True, it's not
perfect, but we still are very much in the early days. Coherent AI intelligences are only about 3 years old. The vast majority of complaints I see are personal taste, but that's entirety subjective. It genuinely is exciting, because we're making rapid progress, yet we still have so much ahead of us.
Going back to your balloon analogy, one has to walk before they can run. Going "well balloons are a slop way to travel" and sitting on your hands isn't going to help. In those days, it was understood that going to the moon was not possible for the time, so they focused on what they could do. I rather invest R&D into a real technology with lots of potential, than wait for some imaginary tech to pop out of nowhere. It would be like rejecting cancer treatments out of hope that some cancer cure will arrive. Once we get Skynet Neural Net chips, then we can put generative AI into a museum.