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Python QuickStart for People Learning AI
A beginner-friendly guide
Python has become the de facto programming language for AI and data science. Although no-code solutions exist, learning how to code is still essential to build fully custom AI projects and products. In this article, I share a beginner QuickStart guide to AI development with Python. I’ll cover the basics and then share a concrete example with code.
Python is a programming language, i.e., a way to give computers precise instructions to do things we can’t or don’t want to do [1].
This is handy when automating a unique task without an off-the-shelf solution. For example, if I wanted to automate writing and sending personalized meeting follow-ups, I could write a Python script to do this.
With tools like ChatGPT, it’s easy to imagine a future where one could describe any bespoke task in plain English, and the computer would just do it. However, such a consumer product does not exist right now. Until such products become available, there is tremendous value in knowing (at least a little) Python.
