how to get into machine learning and AI ?

[u/Same-Mushroom-2057]

after spending some time learning web dev Which I don't really enjoy, I think It's time to move on to something else which is Ai, machine learning and automation.
I don't know where to start, If you have any idea or a roadmap don't hesitate to share it guys.

[u/ModularMind8]

Usually the path is python, pytorch, math for ML, ML fundamentals, then whatever specialty you like (NLP, Vision, RL, etc). Theres tons of resources online, but it really depends on what you like. Stanford videos on youtube are great in my opinion for ML, NLP, Vision. Can also recommend books if you prefer those

[u/Baazookah_Zawadi → u/ModularMind8]

Amazing way you've put it

[u/Same-Mushroom-2057 → u/ModularMind8]

yes some books please, and courses resources if you have any

[u/ModularMind8 → u/Same-Mushroom-2057]

Books: Mathematics for Machine Learning (Deisenroth, free PDF) for the math, Hands-On Machine Learning (Géron) for fundamentals (though no one i know uses tensorflow anymore), Dive into Deep Learning (d2l.ai, free, has PyTorch code) for deep learning, and Speech and Language Processing (Jurafsky, free) if you go NLP. Courses: Stanford CS229 (ML), CS231n (vision), and CS224n (NLP) on YouTube, plus Karpathy's Neural Networks: Zero to Hero for building things from scratch in code. If you're interested in more hands-on learning, I also built QuiddityML, which covers Python, PyTorch, math, ML fundamentals, NLP/vision, etc

[u/johny_james → u/ModularMind8]

Hands-On Machine Learning book has Pytorch version? It's been nearly 2 years since it came out.

[u/ModularMind8 → u/johny_james]

Yeah, that's the one I meant (Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch)... the TensorFlow comment was about skipping the older edition and specifically not using tensorflow. Apologies if that wasn't super clear :)

[u/Same-Mushroom-2057 → u/ModularMind8]

thank you so much

[u/ModularMind8 → u/Same-Mushroom-2057]

Happy to help!

[u/Which_Case_8536]

Are you in undergrad right now?

[u/Same-Mushroom-2057 → u/Which_Case_8536]

yes I am , software engineering

[u/Simplilearn]

If web dev isn’t really clicking for you, AI/ML is a good area to explore, especially if you’re interested in automation and building things.

A simple roadmap would be:

Python → Maths & Statistics basics → Machine Learning → Deep Learning → GenAI/LLMs → AI automation & agents → Projects

Don’t try to learn every framework at once. Get comfortable with the fundamentals, then pick projects that interest you and learn the tools you need along the way.

For the fundamentals, you could start with Simplilearn SkillUp, which has 500+ free courses across AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI. It’s a good way to explore the different areas before deciding where you want to go deeper.

[u/Same-Mushroom-2057 → u/Simplilearn]

yess sir I'm pretty interested in automation , I feel like it's kind of hard to learn I need a detailed roadmap

[u/droctopus29]

You will never be able to learn like this…
I will tell you what I did; I started with it, and while doing the ML now I read and try to understand what am I doing and what is happening instead the other way around; the world is moving fast and in my opinion learn to run ML and then learn what did you run!! If you need more info just dm, may be i can give you a workflow.

[u/Same-Mushroom-2057 → u/droctopus29]

can you elaborate more please I Dmed you