I think there are different ways to get involved: 1) Creative applications of existing models Start playing with https://huggingface.co/ https://huggingface.c

I think there are different ways to get involved: 1) Creative applications of existing models Start playing with https://huggingface.co/ https://huggingface.co/ 2) MLOps/data engineering - Deploying, automating, uptime, cost control Classic SRE / SysAdmin skills 3) Creating new ML models (4 - 8 months investment) You probably want to understand some fundamentals. https://www.deeplearning.ai/ https://www.deeplearning.ai/ 4) ML Research - Like #3 but 4 - 8 years of investment, heavy Sciences