Oversimplified explains artificial intelligence in plain language. The rule: if a twelve-year-old couldn't follow it, it gets rewritten until they can.

That doesn't mean it's wrong or watered down. It means the jargon gets translated instead of dropped on you. "Training" becomes "showing it lots of examples." "A model" becomes "a very large pattern-guesser." The real idea stays; the gatekeeping vocabulary goes.

It's for the curious non-expert — parents, students, anyone who keeps nodding along in AI conversations while quietly having no idea what's being said. By the end of a post, you'll actually get it.