Hi everyone,First of all,today I’m on the first grade of high school,I have to spend about 3 more years until I graduate and 4 more years to finish the university.Is it worth to start learning about AI?also, if it’s worth,what’s the first step should i do?anyway,right now I’m looking for a mentor,anyone wanna be my mentor?thankyou
Sure thing, go for it.
But do you like mathematics?
You will need some linear algebra including matrix calculus and functional analysis, elements which school should start throwing at you about now. Unless you are one of those fast learners, the may be some struggle and go much slower than the course timer expects and much much slower at the beginning (as I do). You will certainly have to look up material outside the course and ask various LLMs for advice on mathematics (and they may even answer correctly 
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Personally I am currently just doing the basics with
Why not take a look?
There are also courses for the math part:
And there is also the Python part, as for reasons of history and inertia, Python has become a commonly used language in data science, IMHO very unfortunately (again IMHO, it’s not even a particularly good language for teaching programming, supposedly its initial goal). You may have to look into starter kits like:
and invest into a Python IDE that helps you write and debug code (working in the Jupyter notebook web interface is mental, especially with Python’s mandatory fromatting)
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Sure,I think I can do maths,Are those courses that you recommend arranged sequentially?and based on the courses you take,what kind of AI will you take?also do u have any youtube channel or website recommendation that we can learn about AI from it?
ThankYou.
DLAI’s discussion forum primarily supports two learning opportunities:
- The DLAI courses that are offered through Coursera.
- The DLAI Short Courses that they self-host on learn.deepleaning.ai. You can access it via the “Short Courses” topic in the left-side menu.
The “AI Discussions” topic is certainly open to discuss any other opportunities.
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No, there is no inherent order among the courses. So, if you want to do the NNs first, start with “Neural Networks and Deep Learning” to evaluate whether it is for you at this point in time and maybe switch for a time to another course if you find you do not have the required skillset yet.
I do not know of any course on the Internet in particular, but for mathematical details there is always Wikipedia (among others) and for programming questions. there actually are the large language models (but one has to always be suspicious about what is being dished out)… Questions can be asked on Stack Overflow or right here.
I fact there is so much material and threads that one has to consciously keep on a path forward, which is where “course” comes in.
Oh I forgot MIT Open Course Ware, I never tried it though: