Practical advise to learn AI

Hi, I am a Controls Software Engineer and have been feeling major FOMO from all the advances happening in AI lately.

I am looking for practical advice, that doesn’t involve going back to grad school full-time, to pick up AI skills relevant/adjacent to Controls, for a working engineer.

I have already done the OG ML course by Andrew Ng on Coursera and some DL specializations. I took these in 2019, when it was all in MATLAB.

I am fairly comfortable with Python/C++, so the coding piece of it shouldn’t be a hassle and my math fundamentals are relatively strong

My Goals - Build a practical working understanding of AI and it sub-disciplines at a level sufficient enough to have somewhat intelligent conversations with people in the field and maybe use it in my job, if there is an opportunity - Not be a dinosaur in the next decade

Non-goals - Be a researcher in AI - Be able to keep up the with latest/hottest papers in the field - Learn a lot of math that I cannot really put to use (did this quite a bit with Control :P)

Any/all help is appreciated!