Generative AI is simply a new form of UI

I'm starting to form a view that Generative AI can in essence be distilled down to being a new user interface paradigm. A natural evolution of CLIs -> GUIs -> Rule based NLP chatbots / voice assistants. LLMs by definition are stochastic parrots and are merely matching input tokens to the best possible response without any understanding of why. The actual thought behind a prompt is always driven by a human operator which is why I'm leaning towards this viewpoint. Take coding as an example, we've had multiple iterations of ways to do this from punch cards to CLI based tools to GUI editors.