It is not superintelligence. It’s common intelligence at scale. A bot for erotic conversation - something that a lot of people have done before - is something genAI is much better equipped to do than solving a problem that the whole of humanity wasn’t able to solve yet.
Does that mean AI sexbot doesn’t sound ridiculous? Hell no
GTA 2 didn’t connect not because it looked slightly different than GTA 1. This was the “transition to 3D” era and people gravitated towards such games, like Driver.