LLM Analogies I've heard

A better blogger would cite all the sources but I think a lot of these have been claimed by multiple people, and I don't remember where I heard of them all.

LLMs are Airplanes (and we're birds)

 LLMs are supersonic jets

LLMs are Crypto

LLMs are transformative on the scale of the Printing Press/Industrial Revolution/Pick Your Favorite Huge Thing

LLMs are the Next Big Paradigm Shift in Computing (on the scale of cloud & mobile)

LLMs are a database

LLMs are Microwaves