As seen online:
“AI feels magical. It isn’t. It is built from spectacularly ordinary pieces. At the foundation, you have basic math: addition, multiplication, averages, probability estimates. On top of that, you stack statistics, linear algebra, and massive grids of numbers called matrices. Then come algorithms that aren’t mysterious in the slightest as they simply adjust those numbers by small increments whenever the computer guesses wrong. That is all “learning” means. You feed in enormous volumes of data like sentences, images, recordings, and the computer repeats the same routine billions of times, slowly tuning itself. Add hardware that can perform these tiny operations at extraordinary speed, and suddenly you get a model that can spot patterns and generate predictions. Wrap that model in software that lets you chat with it or assign it tasks, and you get what most people now call AI. ”
— from I'm Sorry to Burst Your Bubble: You Are Being Fooled About AI, and You Will Soon Feel Really Stupid as of 23 February 2026