Actually controlling the robot body could be a subsystem - as others have said here, AI has been used to control video games or even robotic devices, but that’s different than LLMs like chatgpt.
If the LLM is the “brain” it can send commands to the body subsystem. In a similar way to right now where chatgpt can do a web search or upload a file. Those capabilities aren’t fundamentally part of the LLM, they’re kind of like an API call.
Thanks! I don’t know what you mean by your first paragraph.
You’re right that it’s not near being an AGI. But it doesn’t need to be to be used in a robot form and perform some useful tasks.
Right now I can ask chatgpt to take a block of code in Ruby and output the equivalent in Python, and it will do it, and for the most part it’s correct.
I could envision telling an AI robot to sort this pile of parts by type, or pick up all the sticks in the yard, etc. I think we could make something like that now without any significant technological breakthroughs. It might get stuff wrong sometimes, but I envision it as having an intern, not creating a new god. Of course these companies may promise much more in their marketing.