[turkeygizzard]

Similar situation as you. I stopped keeping up around 2015ish.

I just read Francois Chollet's Deep Learning with Python and found it to be a fantastic high level overview of all the recent progress. There's some code, but not a lot. I mostly just appreciated it as a very straightforward plain-language treatment of RNNs, CNNs, and transformers.

Now I'm going through Stanford's CS224 lectures.

I'm sort of planning to read papers but as some other comments have pointed out, I'm less sure of the ROI on that since I'm not sure how feasible a future in AI is for me