Any tips on how to get started?
This article estimated the cost of training GPT3 to be over $4M: https://heits.digital/articles/gpt3-overview
1) Creative applications of existing models
Start playing with https://huggingface.co/
2) MLOps/data engineering - Deploying, automating, uptime, cost control
Classic SRE / SysAdmin skills
3) Creating new ML models (4 - 8 months investment)
You probably want to understand some fundamentals. https://www.deeplearning.ai/
4) ML Research - Like #3 but 4 - 8 years of investment, heavy Sciences