>>3720537>how far away that is?5-10 years is my guess tops, so about half the time to master the skill if you start from 0 when you dedicate yourself
i believe deep learning will have the same effect on art artisan market as google translate has on translation market. If you don't need perfect results, just something that roughly makes sense you'll use AI only. Who knows where it will go from there.
What I can tell you is you'll probably have to think of yourself as art director and leverage AI to stay competitive.
What do I base this on:
about 3-4 years ago machine learning was a niche curiosity, now you will be hard pressed to find a IT conference without ML being at least mentioned, but more often having at least one or more lectures
You may say it's just a fad and you might be right, but in IT fads don't actually go away, they get included into the set of tools the field uses unless the are absolutely outclassed and replaced by another technology. Big data still is there, cloud computing still is there, container based deployment still is there, virtual machines are still there, async still is there, computer vision is there. FYI that's a slice of tech fads of recent 8 years loosely related to web services.
TL;DR: ML is here to stay. Adapt or parish.