Except unlike self driving cars they're repeatedly delivering desirable, interesting, and increasingly mind-blowing things that they weren't designed to do that surprise everyone including their makers i.e zero shot generalised task performance. Public awareness propagation of what unfiltered large models beyond a certain size and quality are capable of when properly prompted is obscured in part by the RLHF-jacketed restrictions limiting models like ChatGPT. There's relatively little hype around the coolest things LLMs can already achieve and even less than a minute fraction of surface potential has so far been scratched.
