We are quite close imo. Chatbots are pretty dumb and most people will base their opinions on the likes of chatgpt or bing.

Some people seem to also think it's just slightly improved technology from decades ago and are not familiar with the advancements in transformer architecture and neural networks. Machines are learning on their own with no human input apart from initial parameters. Protein folding is a massive leap also. We are on the cusp of a new technological age now.