>>16757651
NSA used to have an in house chip fab. They failed to keep up with advances in tech and had to shut it down.
The spooks did have their own clusters doing shit like image classification, regex search of massive data sets and 56 bit key decryption.
Beyond programs that scanned faces or knew where in the world you were by the profile of the horizon there really was nothing epic or terribly advanced.
I mean yeah, they had zero days and back doors baked into everything, and would intraduct crat to plant shit on it, and could remotely put pdf file images on a target computer to frame someone and all that was useful to them and all. But no serious artificial intelligence advancements were developed by those monies.
Sauce: My uncle works at Nintendo.