A lot of people talk about AI like it appeared out of

A lot of people talk about AI like it appeared out of nowhere in the last 3 years, but the DOE’s computing research pages are a good reminder that modern AI still sits on decades of federal work in simulation, high-performance computing, and data science. The funny part is the “how machine learning works” explanations are usually simpler than the marketing — it’s mostly pattern prediction at massive scale, plus a ton of infrastructure normal users never see.