In 2012 - I started my journey of AI and Machine Learning. I got inspiration from the movie Iron Man. I was really inspired by JARVIS, an AI that used to do all kinds of work. I still don't remember why I wanted to build that, but it all started till then. In Bloomberg report, Google was the first company who said we are transforming the business, we will be the first fully operated AI company. I got inspired, but I was having no resources where to start.
So I just used to read the books and things which were old, not updated, still used to get some information about the automation. In fact, I was not aware about the coding skills. So in 2014, when my college was about to start, I got one contact. From there, I started learning C/C++ using Turbo C in blue screen in really hard way because he was not a teacher, he was a software engineer. He trained us for the worst so that we can become the best.
Then thanks to Jio, who gave access to the worldwide connectivity, Deepak was my friend. We found 7-8 videos by Google for scikit-learn. We got the hope, and coding we already knew, so dots started connecting. We started building basic logistic regression models.
It all started in a crazy way, just because there were no resources. We were reading the research papers. It made us strong, with detailed learning. Yes, I was slow because I was learning the depth, but in the long run, it really worked.
Sometimes it's always good to risk and give the best shot that no one is doing. You can be really on the top than many of the people.