Dig down to fundamentals. Most of the foundational stuff for AI is older than or approaching ten years. If you'd started on them then, you would be an expert no

Dig down to fundamentals. Most of the foundational stuff for AI is older than or approaching ten years. If you'd started on them then, you would be an expert now. If you start now, you'll still become an expert and prepared to understand the next thing built on the same fundamentals. The big thing right now is transformers: 2017 (6 years), based on much older work. It's the T in GPT. The foundations for all this stuff are over 100 years old. It's convenient for people with financial stake to make it seem scary and inaccessible, but all this stuff that's setting the stage for the next future is knowable. You don't necessarily have to sit down and make your own AI. Just knowing the general shape of progress gives you a better shot at knowing what will break out the way ChatGPT did in time to think of how you can fit it into your own workflow. Or at least keep pace once it does. That's how I've kept ahead of the growing public anxiety.