Fun trivia: When The Matrix was made, nobody knew matrix multiplication would underpin all AI
birchlse · x · 2026-10-07
A nostalgic observation: when The Matrix was filmed, no one knew matrix multiplication would become the foundation of all future AI. The title "Matrix" originally meant a womb or substrate in which structures are embedded, and the film's world made of numbers was merely a visual pun — decades before it described neural networks literally.
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