> I feel like there's about 1000 hours of high quality AI lectures available for free on the internet and while I do believe in a certain amount of selflessness

> I feel like there's about 1000 hours of high quality AI lectures available for free on the internet and while I do believe in a certain amount of selflessness in education, I am skeptical that any of that is providing more than a glimpse of what you need to know to be productive at it. Why? Whether you go to the lectures in a university or watch them online, it makes no difference. I prefer and recommend textbooks over videos though. > In other words, there's a thousand hours of material out there, which probably takes 10000 hours to actually get into so you might as well put all that effort into properly studying it at a university, getting the knowledge not covered in the lectures alone and a degree to prove it in the end. What knowledge "not covered in lectures alone" or books do you need? Why do you think having a signal of pedigree somehow confers this knowledge onto people. > If you're just "curious" about AI, a really good half hour lecture should get you up to speed. You don't have to either be an expert or a complete layman. This gatekeeping is ridiculous. I've worked with many phds and most of them are not even close to as competent as folks who are naturally gifted and put in the work to pick up the topics.