Exactly in some sense we (collectively) are doing most of the hard work, by providing these models with a vast number of samples of "intelligent" behaviour and

Exactly in some sense we (collectively) are doing most of the hard work, by providing these models with a vast number of samples of "intelligent" behaviour and expression. An embodied system wouldn't be able to learn anything as it stands, because none of the "bootstrapping" steps humans do are adequately captured by current training methods.