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Understand how AI and Gen AI works in general.
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Get familiar with Gen AI and its potential usage in your day-to-day work.
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Apart from AI, try to check what is more in demand as per your experience and try to upskill in those areas as well (e.g. Full stack or DevOps).
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Work on your soft skills, once you get more experience (in duration/years), soft skills can be a great differentiator between you and someone who is technically great but is not so good soft skills wise.
Remember to do these at a sustainable pace without stressing a lot about it.
Wishing you the best!
Great answer
As a Data Scientist and ML Engineer having extensive experience as a freelancer as well as full-time employee, I think the most important thing you should do is to leave Java and get hands-on experience with either R or Python.
What do you mean by "AI ready"?