[bcrosby95]

Is there an easy way for the lay-tech-person to get a window into this world?

It feels like the internet and mobile were a lot easier to follow. But with AI/ML, most of it seems to be stuffed in black boxes that I have no way to follow.

[jacquesm]

Possibly the various kaggle image recognition challenges would be one way:

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

but there are plenty of others there that you might be able to relate to.