Yes I think this points to the need for adaptiveness which remains humans edge.
We don't need PBs of training data, millions of compute, and hours upon hours of training.
You could sit down a moderately intelligent intern as a mechanical turk to perform this workflow with only a few minutes of instruction and get a reasonably good result.
Ah, but I think you're overlooking one major factor. Convenience. A lot of the spontaneous stuff we do ("hey why don't we pop down to x tomorrow?", or "do you fancy a quick curry?") are things you're not going to book with a Turk. BUT you definitely would fire up a quick agent on your way to the shower and have it do all the work for you while you're waxing your armpits. :) Agentic work is starting super slow, but once the wrinkles are worked out, we'll see a world where they're doing a huge amount of heavy lifting for the drudge stuff. For an example see Her - sorry! :)
We don't need PBs of training data, millions of compute, and hours upon hours of training.
You could sit down a moderately intelligent intern as a mechanical turk to perform this workflow with only a few minutes of instruction and get a reasonably good result.