The automobile is faster than a human but is not a path towards machines that can transport things long distances including climbing hills or stairs or fording

The automobile is faster than a human but is not a path towards machines that can transport things long distances including climbing hills or stairs or fording rivers. Generative transformers only address part of the problem space, and perhaps I should have written “appear to address”. It is unlikely that they are much of a step along the path — perhaps, to use a car analogy, they are a crankshaft. Perhaps a better analogy is the analogue computers of the 40s-60s and the later digital/analogue hybrids. Computationally interesting for the problems of the age but ultimately a dead end.