A question for people who are not my father (so, presumably all of you): say someone had all the time in the world and non-zero motivation; how long do you think it would take to get to a solid competency level in AI/LLMs? This is not because I am planning to. This is because my father insists I can bang it out in a couple months. And that is because *he* did. (He has a CS PhD and has written copious papers in various CS subfields so I believe him. What I do not believe, however, is in me.)

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25 分鐘內	John Biesnecker biesnecker	I think it depends a lot on the base of skills you're bringing into this. Are you a software engineer now? Do you have a CS degree? Like, if you're having to learn it from first principles it's gonna take a minute, but you're probably not?
一小時內	Michael O ywrtrwy	Something that’s often missed is the difference between theory and engineering. LLMs have relatively little theory. The principles of operation are fairly simple and a few months is plenty to get fluent. But there’s a HUGE amount of engineering involved in building a useful model: A zillion small details that make the difference between modal collapse/divergence and actual good output. And those details will take a longer time to become fluent in, along with continuous reading and research…
5 小時內	Bysshe Easton byssheeaston	Depends so heavily on ability and how quickly you personally learn things and what kind of competency (MLE, data scientist, research scientist). But honestly you have an actual benchmark in your father. You're probably best positioned to know whether he's actually that much quicker or has a better background than you and how much the difference is.
8 小時內	Jay Wacker jgwacker	For you or a rando off the street?
11 小時內	Johannes Ernst johannes.ernst	Your dad sounds like somebody who knows you and has relevant expertise and is your biggest fan. Believe him.
15 小時內	Tanya Rabourn rabourn	I’m curious what @muchhungry has to say
21 小時內	Douglas Ridgway dougridgway	If you mean competent enough to start working on your application of interest: honestly, if you’re spending more than a week on background, you’re delaying too long. If you mean hireable, ie convincing someone else to pay you $900k/yr to work on these things, well that’s a sales and marketing problem, not a technical problem.