An LLM is like a mouse.

You no longer have the console as the primary interface, but a GUI, which 99.9+% of computer users control via a mouse.

You no longer have the screen as the primary interface, but an AUI, which 99.9+% of computer users control via a headset, earbuds, or a microphone and speaker pair.

You mostly speak and listen to other humans, and if you're not reading something they've written, you could have it read to you in order to detach from the screen or paper.

You'll talk with your computer while in the car, while walking, or while sitting in the office.

An LLM makes the computer understand you, and it allows you to understand the computer.

Even if you use smart glasses, you'll mostly talk to the computer generating the displayed results, and it will probably also talk to you, adding information to the displayed results. It's LLMs that enable this.

Just don't focus too much on whether the LLM knows how high Mount Kilimanjaro is; its knowledge of that fact is simply a hint that it can properly handle language.

Still, it's remarkable how useful they are at analyzing things.

LLMs have a bright future ahead, or whatever technology succeeds them.