I don’t know if this warrants a separate thread here but I have to ask…

How can I realistically get involved the AI development space? I feel left out with what’s going on and living in a bubble where AI is forced into by my employer to make use of it (GitHub Copilot), what is a realistic road map to kinda slowly get into AI development, whatever that means

My background is full stack development in Java and React, albeit development is slow.

I’ve only messed with AI on very application side, created a local chat bot for demo purposes to understand what RAG is about to running models locally. But all of this is very superficial and I feel I’m not in the deep with what AI is about. I get I’m too ‘late’ to be on the side of building the next frontier model and makes no sense, what else can I do?

I know Python, next step is maybe do ‘LLM from scratch”? Or I pick up Google machine learning crash course certificate? Or do recently released Nvidia Certification?

I’m open for suggestions