The AI models we rave about today didn’t start with transformers or neural nets. They started with something almost embarrassingly simple: counting words. The

The AI models we rave about today didn’t start with transformers or neural nets. They started with something almost embarrassingly simple: counting words. The Bag of Words model ignored meaning, context, and grammar — yet it was the spark that made computers understand language at all. Here’s how this tiny idea became the foundation for everything from spam filters to ChatGPT.