Right now artificial intelligence is being used to detect diseases, enable cars to drive themselvesπ, and even beat humans at video games.
AI is an exponential technology with tons of applications, and to build projects that can solve real-world problems, you need a laptop!π»
Don't worry about understanding all the math 100%, this can come later. But it would help if you had the basics of Python.
Do this Udacity course, it teaches you all the basics, and will give you experience with building some AI projects, like turning your cat into a painting π± β π¨
Or you can check out the courses on Made with ML (see "machine learning basics course").
Watch this Artificial Intelligence Full Course.
I recommend PyTorch over TensorFlow. Each framework has excellent tutorials.
The general consensus is that PyTorch is easier to use than TensorFlow.
Do the PyTorch blitz (2 hours), then do one of their other official tutorials (We recommend the GANs tutorial which will take 6 hours).
The building is the best way to learn. πFind something interesting that AI can do and build it. If you replicate someone else's project, give credit!
Examples of good AI replicates:
Creating Fake People and Cats with GANs
Beating Video Games with Reinforcement Learning ο»Ώπ
Download Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual) and use Spyder as an IDE. You can run code straight from there, and it gets you all of the packages you need for data science and ML.