Your Path to AI Engineering
You now know what AI is and how chatbots work. This last lesson shows what an AI engineer does. It shows which skills to learn, and in what order. It also shows how the rest of this site fits into a plan you can follow.
New words
- AI engineer
- A person who builds products using AI models that already exist.
- API
- A way for one program to ask another program for work.
- RAG
- Look something up first, then answer using what you found.
- Agent
- An AI that uses tools and takes several steps toward a goal.
- Evaluation
- Testing to check whether your AI product works well.
- Latency
- The waiting time before the answer arrives.
What you will learn
- What does an AI engineer do?
- How is it different from other AI jobs?
- The skills roadmap
- Try it: explore the skill map
- How this site maps to the roadmap
- Try it: plan your weeks
- A realistic first month
- Explain it to a friend
10 quiz questions at the end.
The full lesson, with interactive demos and the quiz, opens after you sign in with Google. It is free.