It may be harsh but the reality is, if you have to ask you’re likely not a viable candidate.
The leading AI companies have the kind of capital to be able to hire the very best of the industry. If you’re only just starting now and even worse yet need your hand held to do so you’re totally out of the running…
so what would be wise to do in this situation? leave the hope and surrender or completely start out and work in a nascent field?
Build up experience. There's no shortcuts
You're basically like a junior dev trying to apply to be a lead dev for a team at Google