LLMs highlight lack of progress in real world

With LLMs now multimodal and extremely cheap, they can do much of what a human can, when limited to only the virtual.

This rapid progress in the world of bits, however, is a sore reminder of how slowly things improve in the physical world. I need an AI that can:

• plan meals, manage food inventory, cook, wash dishes, clean up the kitchen;
• pick up toys every couple hours and set them in place;
• rock my newborn to sleep several times a day.

Funnily enough, since software (including recent AI) has made things so easy and automated in the virtual world, all the chores left in my life require physical presence and dexterity. So while I can move twice as fast in my software job, I am still stuck picking up Lego pieces every night the same way my parents were thirty years ago.