Besides the obvious nonsensical unlabeled Y-axis: It's an interesting narrative for sure but I do find it quite weird. I never saw robotics ("physical AI") as an evolution or the next step of other AI disciplines. Also "perception AI" like classification or regression as a lower evolutionary step of this field. I rather see it as another category to the side of it.

It also implies that all work on robotics before next gen chatbots are work in their infancy or stuff humankind wasted their time on because we weren't ready for it yet?

Curious - what do you think about this narrative?