As someone who's very skeptical of AI, for a looooong time. I am skeptical about self driving, skeptical about no code, skeptical about ML. But the stable diffusion and chat GPT are truly the only AI tech that made my mind blown.
I really want to know how it works. It is like magic.
This is the first time I've seen AI create truly new things. To me it doesn't matter that what it creates is wrong or right, but the fact that it creates new things, is truly truly, up there with wizardry, nature, magic, etc.
The "fastai" course is free, and does a really nice job walking you through building simple neural nets from the ground up:
https://github.com/fastai/fastai
What's going on here is the exact same thing, just much, much larger.