This defeatist mentality is plain stupid. There are under 20yrs old working on AI today, they went from 0 to their current knowledge in most cases 2-3 years.

This defeatist mentality is plain stupid. There are under 20yrs old working on AI today, they went from 0 to their current knowledge in most cases 2-3 years. So what to do? Level up. I'm an old fart too, blah, blah, blah, since the days of 2400bps modem. For anyone that wants to level up, go take Andrew Ng's ML course, watch some online lectures on neural networks, deep learning, reinforcement learning. Never in the history of the world have we had so much learning resources at our finger tips, plenty of youtube videos, blogs, articles, free books, free courses, software libraries to get into it. Stop with the self pity, get up and dance. Start learning, at some point pick up scikit learn for shallow learning and pytorch for DL. GPUs are super cheap. You can pick up a used 3060 RTX for < $250. Or you can just rent for even cheaper. If you are technical and find yourself agreeing with the author, please snap out of it. You are going to feel lost for quite a while, but I assure you, you will find your way if you keep at it. AI gets me excited, computing has been too boring for far too long!