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The learning process never ends - in fact, it's a never-ending pleasure.
Can a 38 year old learn AI from scratch and make any bucks ? ( No coding knowledge )
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The learning process never ends - in fact, it's a never-ending pleasure.
- Oct 11, 2019
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He signed up for an online college, learned for 1 year and earned his diploma.
gatti6digitz
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awesome. thank you
bobblack225
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No. You obviously lack any motivation. You want to earn money but you expect it to come walking to you? Find some motivation because if you don't have any desire to do something, 10/10 times you won't.
Also this is already showing itself. Chatgpt is very easy to use, and I've been using it already in some of my ventures. Took me less than a week to pick up.
Also as someone who is also learning ai, it's not easy. I picked up programming in a week (python basics) but it's taking me way longer on ai, you definitely need to know your math, like calculus but especially linear algebra, and need to memorize complex concepts.
This applies to if you want to learn ai from the ground up of course, you could just fine-tune gpt3.5 on your data and use an api and call it ai, in which case that'd take you a day to learn.
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As technology is always evolving, it is never too late to learn. There are many available resources online to learn the basics.
AlexAkimbo
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I’m coding vanilla almost all the time (JS/TS, python, C++/C#, R). These days it’s mostly custom shell scripting and ansible because I am experimenting with some scaling and automated deploys. Lots of stuff in backlog tho
So OP don’t give up and learn. Each skill is golden.
Edit: I am 43 and actively code for past 3 years. Before that I was in military/telco/cybersecurity but got bored. Covid helped me to reevaluate my life goals. Now I am happy coder and researcher working from home for various clients on my own pace and have enough time for wife and kids. Still learning day to day.
PS. I have engineering degree in telecommunications and had CS/programming classes 20 years ago but didn’t took active roles in programming until few years back.
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I started learning programming at 33 and soon I will be working in a programming job. But if you get demotivated while programming maybe this is not for you. If you have the knack of it maybe you could try learning python from w3schools and maybe get a job in A.I. programming.
theflagoon
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I am 43 from a CS degree and used to manage couple of sites that did 1K per month in revenue in 2007. When the great financial crisis started I found a more permanent IT job that had a steady revenue. Money is still good but after covid I am working mostly remotely and I have again a lot of time to start doing my own things. Have also a lot of skills in python and automations
Reading this thread gave me also a great push to rejoin BHW (I don't even have my old creds) and start to test some sources of revenue
My motto is always "never stop learning"
Reading this thread gave me also a great push to rejoin BHW (I don't even have my old creds) and start to test some sources of revenue
My motto is always "never stop learning"
lotsofmoney
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Earning $700 per month in India is like dream job for millions of people. Even if you learn AI, money will not follow automatically. You have to innovate there also.