It's only a matter of time now before someone uses GPT to directly control a humanoid like robot. I see no reason why you couldn't do that with some kind of translation layer that goes from text instructions like: "walk forward 10 steps" to actual instructions to motors/servos.
Previous editions of Automate the Boring Stuff Using Python worked only in the domain of files existing on a computer. The next one will have a chapter on weeding a lawn throughout the night.
Google actually recently went some steps further and combined the PaLM LLM (bigger than GPT-3.5) with a 22 billion parameter Vision Transformer to do this -
there were reports from Microsoft recently as well. If I remember correctly their version of ChatGPT given a task in plain English generated actions script for a robot.
So, we are getting closer to AI 'Goblin'. Almost generic, sub-human, embodied AI
