{"id":274,"date":"2026-03-16T08:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poznayu.com\/en\/?p=274"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:29:54","slug":"what-languages-are-used-for-modern-ai-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poznayu.com\/en\/what-languages-are-used-for-modern-ai-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"What Languages Are Used for Modern AI and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='text-align:right' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>Modern artificial intelligence (AI)<\/strong> is a complex ecosystem where different programming languages handle specific tasks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>Python<\/strong> is the undisputed leader, used by 58 percent of developers, and its popularity continues to grow. The reason isn&#8217;t speed\u2014Python is relatively slow\u2014but its role as an ideal &#8220;remote control&#8221; for libraries written in C++ and CUDA.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">When you run a neural network in <strong>PyTorch<\/strong> or <strong>TensorFlow<\/strong>, Python merely coordinates while the heavy matrix computations are handled by faster languages. This lets developers write clean code without sacrificing performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Python&#8217;s second advantage is its massive ecosystem of ready\u2011made tools. Developers don&#8217;t need to reinvent algorithms when libraries for text, image, sound, and mathematics are already available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">For instance, Hugging Face&#8217;s Transformers library contains thousands of pre\u2011trained models that can be used with a single line of code. This low barrier to entry lets engineers focus on system architecture instead of rewriting basic functions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Moreover, Python&#8217;s syntax reads almost like English, which is critical when dealing with complex architectures that are easy to get lost in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">For heavy computation where speed is crucial, developers use <strong>C++<\/strong>. Every major framework&#8217;s engine\u2014TensorFlow, PyTorch, video and audio libraries\u2014is written in C++. It allows efficient memory management and full use of CPU and GPU capabilities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">When you need to run a language model on a smartphone or in a browser, it&#8217;s inevitably converted to a format close to C++ or built with JavaScript using TensorFlow.js. This enables AI to work locally, without sending data to servers, which is vital for privacy and real\u2011time response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>Java and C#<\/strong> occupy their own niches in the corporate sector and Android development.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Big\u2011data systems like Apache Spark and Hadoop, used to train models on terabytes of information, are written in Java.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Java also guarantees reliability and scalability, which banks and industrial applications demand. Many companies aren&#8217;t ready to rewrite millions of lines of proven code in Python, so they integrate AI through Java libraries, preserving their existing developer expertise and legacy systems. This pragmatic approach respects real\u2011world business processes.<\/p>\n<h2>Why AI Didn&#8217;t Exist Earlier Even Though the Languages Were Already There ?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>The main reason<\/strong> isn&#8217;t the languages but hardware capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">AI ideas emerged as early as the 1950s\u2014Alan Turing published his famous paper in 1950, and John McCarthy coined the term &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; in 1956 while creating Lisp. But computers back then were thousands of times weaker than today&#8217;s smartphones. Neural networks require billions of floating\u2011point operations; the processors of the 1960s struggled even with simple arithmetic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Early AI systems could only play chess or solve logical puzzles; they couldn&#8217;t learn from data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>The second key factor<\/strong> was the lack of big data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Modern language models are trained on petabytes of text scraped from the entire internet. In the 1980s, that data simply didn&#8217;t exist in digital form. Even if researchers had had the right algorithms and computers, there would have been nothing to feed the neural networks. Only with the rise of the internet, social media, and digitized libraries did material for training become available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Open\u2011source projects like Hadoop, Spark, and Cassandra were specifically built to store and process those mountains of information on clusters of ordinary servers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>Third<\/strong>, algorithms themselves evolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The neural networks we use today are based on backpropagation, popularized in the 1980s, and the transformer architecture, introduced in 2017. Earlier models were too simplistic to capture complex dependencies in data.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Decades of research were needed to arrive at architectures that actually work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Interestingly, Lisp, the language of early AI systems, is still used in academia, but its syntax and paradigms turned out to be too unfamiliar for mainstream development compared to Python.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>Finally<\/strong>, economics played a role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">For a long time, AI investments yielded no commercial returns, leading to so\u2011called &#8220;AI winters&#8221; when funding dried up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">It took NVIDIA&#8217;s graphics cards accidentally becoming perfect for training neural networks, and internet giants realizing they could monetize AI, for the boom to begin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The programming languages were ready, but only the perfect storm of powerful hardware, massive data, and breakthrough algorithms made modern AI possible.<\/p>\n<h2>ALGOL: Why It Didn&#8217;t Become the Foundation for AI ?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>ALGOL (ALGOrithmic Language)<\/strong> appeared in 1958 as a joint effort of European and American scientists. It was a revolution: it introduced block structure, nested functions, and lexical scope\u2014features used in every modern language.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">To describe ALGOL&#8217;s syntax, John Backus and Peter Naur created Backus\u2011Naur form, still taught in universities today. The language was intended as a universal way to express algorithms, and it succeeded brilliantly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">So why wasn&#8217;t ALGOL used for early AI systems, even though it was designed for algorithms?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">AI pioneers like John McCarthy bet on Lisp, which appeared around the same time. Lisp was purpose\u2011built for symbolic computation\u2014its code and data had the same structure, allowing programs to modify themselves. That property was considered essential for mimicking thought. ALGOL, by contrast, focused on numerical calculations and strictly separated code from data, making it less flexible for early AI experiments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">A second reason was the lack of built\u2011in input\/output and standard libraries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">ALGOL described only computational algorithms; it didn&#8217;t specify how a program should interact with a user or file system. Each computer manufacturer added its own extensions, making programs incompatible across machines. For industrial programming that was acceptable, but for research labs wanting to quickly test new ideas, it didn&#8217;t work. Lisp offered an interactive development environment where you could write code and see results immediately\u2014far more convenient for experimentation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">ALGOL&#8217;s legacy is immense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Tony Hoare, one of programming&#8217;s greats, said it was so far ahead of its time that it improved not only its predecessors but almost all its successors. The syntax of Pascal, C, and even Java clearly descends from ALGOL. But for artificial intelligence, a different path was chosen\u2014one of symbolic computation, dynamic typing, and interactive development. That path eventually led to modern neural networks, which, though written in Python, internally use mathematics worthy of ALGOL&#8217;s numerical methods.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a simple example in ALGOL 60 that calculates the sum of numbers from 1 to 5. The example is short, within 7\u201310 lines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">begin<br \/>\ninteger i, sum;<br \/>\nsum := 0;<br \/>\nfor i := 1 step 1 until 5 do<br \/>\nsum := sum + i;<br \/>\nprint(&#8220;Sum of numbers from 1 to 5 is: &#8220;, sum);<br \/>\nend<\/p>\n<h2>Can You Build Your Own AI at Home<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Building a neural network at home is not only possible but quite realistic\u2014and you <strong>don&#8217;t need a supercomputer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Modern frameworks let you run small models even on a laptop or a desktop with a mid\u2011range graphics card. For example, the <strong>llama.cpp<\/strong> library allows running language models with a billion parameters on a CPU, and with a GPU you can handle larger models. Of course, training such a model from scratch at home is impossible\u2014it would take thousands of GPU hours and enormous budgets. But downloading a pre\u2011trained model and fine\u2011tuning it for your own tasks on a home PC is entirely feasible. LoRA technology lets you adapt big models in just a few hours on a consumer\u2011grade GPU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">As for hardware, the minimum requirements aren&#8217;t as scary as they sound.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">To run ready\u2011made models, you need a GPU with 8\u201112 GB of video memory\u2014roughly an NVIDIA RTX 3070\/3080 or higher. For training simple neural networks on your own data, even more modest cards will do.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">A modern CPU is fine; the heavy lifting happens on the GPU.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll want at least 16 GB of RAM, and for larger language models, 32 or 64 GB.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">A mining rig is neither necessary nor beneficial\u2014mining uses GPUs differently than AI training, which demands fast data exchange between cards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Much more important than hardware are skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">To work on AI at home, you need to know Python, understand linear algebra and calculus basics, and be familiar with neural network architectures. You&#8217;ll need to use frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow, plus data\u2011handling libraries. The modern approach to building AI applications isn&#8217;t training models from zero\u2014it&#8217;s assembling systems from ready\u2011made components: take a base model, fine\u2011tune it on your data, add a knowledge base via RAG, wrap it in an API, and build a front end. That&#8217;s well within one developer&#8217;s reach. Even Google&#8217;s leaked memo admitted that the open\u2011source community can personalize models in an evening on ordinary hardware, challenging the advantages of huge corporations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Today there are specialized devices that make running AI on a home computer even easier. For instance, the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2, released in 2026, includes an accelerator delivering up to 40 trillion operations per second, letting you run vision models right on a Raspberry Pi. This opens up possibilities for smart cameras, home assistants, and robots without relying on cloud services. The real limitations of home AI aren&#8217;t hardware\u2014they&#8217;re data and time. To make a neural network work well, you need a quality dataset, cleaned and properly labeled, plus many experiments with settings. That&#8217;s where patience and methodical work pay off.<\/p>\n<h2>How Developers Make Programs &#8220;Think&#8221; ?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">In truth, developers don&#8217;t make programs &#8220;think&#8221; in the human sense. They create mathematical models that, given input data, compute probable answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>The core mechanism<\/strong> is neural networks\u2014layers of simple computing elements connected to each other. Each connection has a weight; when a signal passes through, those weights determine how strongly the next neuron fires. Initially the weights are random, but during training on millions of examples they&#8217;re gradually adjusted so the network responds correctly. It&#8217;s like tuning a giant musical instrument, where notes are replaced by data patterns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>The second key<\/strong> mechanism is the transformer architecture, the foundation of modern language models like GPT. These models use an &#8220;attention&#8221; mechanism that lets every word in a text &#8220;look at&#8221; other words and assess their importance. For instance, in the sentence &#8220;The bank collapsed&#8221; versus &#8220;I went to the river bank,&#8221; the word &#8220;bank&#8221; connects differently to its neighbors. The model doesn&#8217;t understand meaning, but it statistically memorizes millions of such relationships. When you ask a question, it calculates the probabilities of possible continuations and picks the most plausible one. This resembles an immensely complex game of &#8220;fill in the blank&#8221; where each next word is chosen from a dictionary based on context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">To tackle more complex problems, developers build multi\u2011stage systems. For example, RAG (Retrieval\u2011Augmented Generation) first searches a knowledge base for information relevant to the query, then passes that information together with the question to the model. This allows the neural net to answer questions about documents it never saw during training. Another example is agent\u2011based systems, where a program can call external tools, query databases or APIs, and then analyze the results. Such systems don&#8217;t just generate text; they perform sequences of actions to achieve a goal, coming much closer to what we&#8217;d call &#8220;thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">It&#8217;s important to understand that there&#8217;s no magic in AI&#8217;s operation. It&#8217;s pure mathematics powered by enormous computational resources. Models don&#8217;t think; they execute staggeringly complex statistical calculations that, because of their complexity, create an illusion of understanding. The current trend is shifting programming from manual code writing to coordinating AI agents. The developer describes a task in natural language, and agents choose tools and write code to solve it. This doesn&#8217;t mean programmers are obsolete\u2014their role moves toward architecture, problem specification, and quality control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The future lies in collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence, each doing what they do best.<\/p>\n<h2>AI in JavaScript for text processing<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"14\" data-end=\"513\">Is it possible to build a true \u201cthinking\u201d system in pure JavaScript without any server modules? The short answer is yes, but with important caveats. Full-scale large language models (LLMs) in the browser require compromises in size and speed, so practical solutions rely on either lightweight on-device models or hybrid setups with online modules. Below, we provide a detailed, technically focused guide on architectures, implementation strategies, and a practical workflow using your provided text.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"b7b4nh\" data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"573\"><strong>Can You Create AI in JavaScript Without Server Modules?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"575\" data-end=\"1175\">Technically, yes: modern browsers support GPU computations via WebGPU, WebAssembly builds, and background threads through Web Workers, enabling neural inference directly on the client side. In practice, this means working with heavily reduced or quantized models, or optimized WASM runtimes of a few megabytes instead of hundreds of gigabytes. The effectiveness of this approach depends on the task: local semantic indexing, text-based question answering, and lightweight conversational responses are feasible, whereas generating long-form, creative answers comparable to server-side LLMs is limited.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"18pv5qg\" data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1221\"><strong>Fully Client-Side Approach: Pros and Cons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1223\" data-end=\"1717\">Advantages include complete privacy and no need for servers: all text, vector indexes, and user query history remain in the browser (IndexedDB). Latency can be minimized with proper setup: WebAssembly + WebGPU allow responsive inference for small to medium models. Limitations include constrained device resources, memory load from model weights, and necessary compromises in quality (heavy quantization, reduced layers), as well as challenges with long-term training or user-adaptive learning.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"1003j2z\" data-start=\"1719\" data-end=\"1757\"><strong>Hybrid Approach with Online Modules<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1759\" data-end=\"2199\">A hybrid setup combines local preprocessing and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with optional remote API modules. The browser performs semantic search on the local index, sending only relevant fragments and a brief query to the cloud. This reduces bandwidth and maintains partial privacy. It provides higher quality answers than a purely local approach but requires careful handling of CORS, authentication, and provider data policies.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"1w0shri\" data-start=\"2201\" data-end=\"2268\"><strong>Making a Script \u201cThink\u201d About Provided Text \u2014 Practical Workflow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2270\" data-end=\"2775\">First, split the text into meaningful segments (paragraphs or 300\u2013800 word chunks) and store them with metadata. Compute embeddings for each fragment \u2014 locally if the model allows, or remotely. When a question is asked, calculate the query embedding, find the nearest fragments in the local index, assemble context, and send it to the local or external model. This transforms a static text file into an understanding engine: responses are based on the retrieved context rather than the entire source text.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"16linm6\" data-start=\"3318\" data-end=\"3387\"><strong>Technical Techniques: WebAssembly, WebGPU, Runtimes, and Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3389\" data-end=\"3835\">Browser inference typically relies on WASM ports of inference cores or WebGPU acceleration for matrix operations; both integrate with JavaScript. For embeddings and small standalone models, use precompiled weights loaded incrementally to avoid blocking the UI; computations should run in Web Workers. If in-browser inference is impossible, use lightweight local preprocessing and remote APIs for final generation \u2014 balancing quality and autonomy.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"1yjf8kd\" data-start=\"3837\" data-end=\"3890\"><strong>RAG Architecture for Local Text: Steps and Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3892\" data-end=\"4285\">The architecture consists of three layers: ingestion and tokenization of the source text; vector index creation and fast nearest-neighbor search; response generation using the retrieved context. Approximate nearest neighbor algorithms can run in JS or WASM; storage can use IndexedDB or the File System Access API. Trim context to model token limits to maintain relevance and prevent overflow.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"bj14o\" data-start=\"4287\" data-end=\"4334\"><strong>Performance Optimization and User Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4336\" data-end=\"4743\">Asynchronous model loading and lazy segment fetching improve UX: initially provide quick local responses, followed by more detailed answers. Cache embeddings and search results to reduce repeated computation; periodically compact indexes to save memory. The interface should indicate whether the context is local or cloud-based and allow an option for \u201cdetailed answer (cloud)\u201d if extended output is needed.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"1xtffg8\" data-start=\"4745\" data-end=\"4791\"><strong>Privacy, Security, and Legal Considerations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4793\" data-end=\"5118\">Fully local solutions maximize privacy: data never leaves the device. In hybrid setups, carefully consider what data is sent to the cloud \u2014 ideally embeddings or small fragments rather than full source texts. Pay attention to data legislation and API provider terms. Encrypt local storage and maintain transparency for users.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"1jlpc56\" data-start=\"5120\" data-end=\"5161\"><strong>Limitations and Realistic Expectations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5163\" data-end=\"5566\">Expecting browser-based JS scripts to match GPT-4 server performance is unrealistic: response quality, latency, and accuracy will be lower. However, for document understanding, question answering, fact extraction, and brief summaries, both client-side and hybrid approaches work effectively. For high-quality generation, combine local preprocessing with remote modules while minimizing transmitted data.<\/p>\n<p data-section-id=\"sv9x9z\" data-start=\"5568\" data-end=\"5610\"><strong>Conclusion and Practical Recommendation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5612\" data-end=\"6229\">For a private tool that answers questions on a specific TXT file, start with a RAG-based approach: split text, compute embeddings, perform local ANN search, and generate responses via a lightweight local model or on-demand cloud module. For broader, creative dialogue, use a hybrid architecture with remote LLMs only for final output. Always design modular systems: WebAssembly\/WebGPU layer for inference, Web Workers for background tasks, IndexedDB for storage, and strict data-sending policies. 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