Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cJ0th 3753 days ago
These (excellent) videos made me realize that picking up AI as a hobby (which I intended) would not be a good idea in my case. There are simply too many different domains of knowledge I would have to learn about to be able to finally do something slightly useful.

I neither have the time nor the brain to do this. Fascinating stuff, though.
1 comments
V-2 3753 days ago
My thoughts exactly. There's even too much of meta-knowledge here :) Without some solid background, it's not something you can casually pick up as a hobby. But yes, as a programmer (not dealing with anything AI-related - right now it's middle-of-the-road mobile apps) I am very impressed by what deep learning proves to be capable of
link