Even LLMs have not realized the dream of a natural language computer interface. Everyone who uses them significantly has to read up on prompt engineering and add little things like "explain your steps" or "describe it like I'm 5" or other oddly specific sequences of characters to get the results they want. That's not natural language. It's a DSL.
Worse. You're just providing tokens which will get values you don't know or can predict attached to them and trying to influence values which will produce tokens based on rules you don't know, which change all the time for reasons you also don't know. Hopefully the tokens you get are the ones you're hoping for, and if you don't have complete mastery of the subject you won't know if they are the tokens you need or can even trust their meaning.
To be fair, what we imagined was dystopian, too. It's just that some people with a lot of ambition and not much media literacy didn't realize it was dystopian, and set about to build that future.
