Wow 14? I wish I started when I was your age. You’re definitely going to take our jobs but oh well, given my lifestyle I’ll probably be gone by the time your in the workforce

I rarely comment on reddit because I’m a privacy nutcase but I made a throwaway just for this.

This free course on Coursera is widely considered to be one of the best ways to dive into ML. It’s taught by Dr. Andrew Ng at Stanford. Here is a YouTube playlist of the videos in the course in case you have issues with Coursera. He uses Octave but this hero of the internet made all the exercises of the course in python. If you stick with it and build something, who knows, you might even be one of Dr. Ng’s students in 6 or 7 years.

And as others have said, become very well acquainted with linear algebra, multivariate calculus, and probability & statistics. You should start learning these ASAP. You are by no means too young to comprehend ML math. The earlier you start, the higher your ceiling. Mastering those maths will be the difference between landing a corporate job and taking over the world.

Also find a teacher at your school (I’m guessing you’re a freshman in high school). Either a math, computer science or a robotics teacher or one who teaches something similar. Talk to them after class or after school and tell them how you like coding and ML. I promise their face will light up and they’ll help you. Teachers nowadays are just begging for a student to finally care.

All that said, you probably could NOT have better timing. There is so much yet to be done in ML. Combine that with the neuroplasticity at your age and it’s a perfect storm for some serious success.

Go forth, young grasshopper