Although ML and AÍ sound very exciting the reality is that a lot of the quick wins have been largely automated today. If you want to be ahead of the pack from

Although ML and AÍ sound very exciting the reality is that a lot of the quick wins have been largely automated today. If you want to be ahead of the pack from a ML/AI point of view you need PhD level education. Even to get a good job, PhDs are often a requirement. Leveraging your experience I’d focus on demonstrable, practical solutions where you tie together multiple different technologies to achieve an outcome. Show me how you started with a hypothesis then pulled data from multiple disparate sources, combined it and washed it, created synthetic columns and applied a cutting edge technique to get to your outcome. Be the guy that can use the tool really well. To be the guy that _invents_ the tools you’re looking at 8 years of study.