Now is the perfect time to join. There's tons of open chat-rooms filled with people excited about the space. Computing resources are basically thrown at you. I'm not an ML guy, but I find the terminology and explanations very approachable.
If you want to get started I can recommend the EleutherAI[1] discord. It seems to have a good mix of experience and excitement.
> Now is the perfect time to join. There's tons of open chat-rooms filled with people excited about the space. Computing resources are basically thrown at you.
Any pointers on where one has to stand in order to be targeted by said computing resources?
I still think it's pointless to join. Most of the innovation comes from big companies with infinite resources.
I disagree. There is a ton of low hanging fruit in applying SOTA ML techniques to niche problems. It just requires a bit of business sense, but there is a lot of money to be made there. More than what I was making as someone doing ML research at Google Research.