Can you clarify what "specialize in AI" means to you?
Overall, if you don't want to be deep into ML then I would recommend getting a role at a top tier tech company that does a lot of AI and then learning there. Companies like Meta have: 1. thousands of AI and ML engineers, some of the best in the world. 2. confidential and leading edge research you can learn about. 3. internal courses, programs etc... to learn AI there while on the job. 4. they have really cool internal tools for employees using AI that you get to use and learn about.
If you want to specialize in Machine Learning and go that route, I would do a Masters specially in Machine Learning and even that won't be enough to get ML jobs but will be a step in the right direction.
If you want understand AI better for no specific reason, other than to know more how Generative AI works, I would do some cheap or free online courses to get the ball rolling
u/Exotic-Musician1233 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I guess the question is, how do I get an AI job without having any expertise in it? I could use my software engineering degree to my advantage but I didn’t really learn AI so not sure how far that will go. That’s why I was considering grad school. Any suggestions on how to approa
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I edited my advice above to clarify that I meant a generalist SWE role at these companies.
If you want to do prompt engineering, or 'AI training' or like these kinds of AI jobs, I don't think you need much training and I would probably just do some very cheap online courses and build projects yourself that are useful to you and your friends.