I think large parts of the "actual intelligence" stems from two facts:

* The moltbots / openclaw bots seem to have "high agency", they actually do things on their own (at least so it seems)

* They interact with the real world like humans do: Through text on WhatsApp, reddit like forums

These 2 things make people feel very differently about them, even though it's "just" LLM generated text like on ChatGPT.