[modeless]

The field is young and unlike mature fields such as physics or mathematics it doesn't take a lifetime of study to master, yet. Neural nets are actually pretty simple at their core; seemingly too simple to work as well as they do.

It's entirely possible to learn this stuff to near state-of-the-art level with a year or two of self-directed study outside of work. All the research is published open access, the software is open source, there are many high quality datasets available, hardware access is simple and free through Colab, and there are dozens of online courses and lectures at every level from beginner all the way to the cutting edge, again all free.

[gravy]

Do you recommend any beginner courses?

[panabee]

stanford offers free machine learning courses.

reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning is also helpful for beginners.