"But how to they fully grasp natural language to be able to perform tasks worded unexpectedly, which would be easy to parse, if they understood natural language

"But how to they fully grasp natural language to be able to perform tasks worded unexpectedly, which would be easy to parse, if they understood natural language?" A Large Language Model. Pardon me for spelling out the full acronym, but it is what it is for a reason. I think a lot of the whiz-bang applications of LLMs have drowned it out, but LLMs are effectively the solution to the long-standing problem of natural language understanding, and that alone would be enough to make them a ground-breaking technology. Taking English text and translating it with very high fidelity into the vector space these models understand is amazing and I think somewhat underappreciated.