You’re just 22 months away from being an Elon Musk-level Super-Innovator

In your heart of hearts, are you an innovator? When you look in the mirror, do you see a future thought leader in a transformational field? Do you rabidly follow the experiments, risks, successes, and failures of bold leaders and thinkers like Elon Musk, Padmasree Warrior, Yann LeCun, Yoky Matsuoka, Demis Hassabis, Rana el Kaliouby, and Mark Zuckerberg, and do you envision your name carved into this Mount Rushmore of technology someday?

If so, you might want to read this article:

Elon Musk’s $1 billion AI startup has developed a system that trains robots in VR

and then take a quick trip over to the Udacity website.

If you’re seeking a blueprint to follow, it’s a tough search. That’s the thing about transformational technologies. They’re too new to provide blueprints. As a next best bet, taking your cues from Elon Musk isn’t a bad way to go.

What’s particularly fascinating about this story, is not that it mentions AI, or Robotics, or VR. These are all transformational technologies we recognize, and are in varying degrees familiar with. What stands out about this story, is that it mentions these fields together!

The takeaway?

The next generation of super-innovators are not going to pioneer a single technology. Instead, they’re going to find ways to mash up the already mind-expanding potential of one technology, to further extend what another technology can achieve.

If this is the future, then where do you, the aspiring innovator, begin? That’s where Udacity comes in. Where else can you go to learn AI, Robotics, and VR all under one roof? Where else are you going to find these transformational technologies being taught by the very innovators who are pioneering them?

Look at it this way: Udacity’s Deep Learning Foundations Nanodegree program takes approximately 4 months to complete. Graduate successfully, and you earn guaranteed admission into either our AI or Robotics programs. The Udacity Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree program takes 6 months to complete. The Udacity Robotics Intelligence Nanodegree program takes 6 months to complete. The Udacity VR Nanodegree program, depending on your initial experience with Unity, takes 4–6 months to complete.

If we presume you’re largely starting from scratch with these technologies, then add up the entire path above, and you get 22 months. That’s less than two years! Two years, and you emerge as a master of the same three transformational technologies Elon Musk is currently championing in a ground-breaking trifecta.

You’re 22 months away from being an Elon Musk-level Super-Innovator. Are you ready?

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This post was written by Christopher Watkins, Senior Writer and Chief Words Officer, Udacity