Should I be building a massive army of AI's to do my bidding? (ie make me money) Or is a job search the smarter path? Or is some other path the smarter path?

An army of AIs is an effective way to amplify what you’re doing.

If you intend to do ill, it will make you a real boss baddie.

If you mean well AI will let help so many more people.

It would also mean you’ll have to gain some hard-core skills in building managing AIS, there are no Shortcuts. And you’ll also have to have some really good skills in whatever it is that you are setting your army of AI robots to do. Because otherwise there’ll be nothing to differentiate your army from everybody else else’s army.

Start with what you want to do because the only thing you can’t get back is time.

Don’t let social media or even regular media make you think that you have to grind and be rich - do something you enjoy and solve problems that people you actually know have and successful follow.

Raspberry Pi have an official AI HAT now, or try the NVIDIA Jetson, but they are mostly focused on local inference processing - stuff like pointing a camera at something and have it tell you what is - apple vs banana vs carrot type stuff. The Raspberry Pi AI HAT has some fun guides, is reasonably cheap and educational based.

If you want to get into LLM learning, OpenClaw is worth a look. Or if you don't mind the China issues, DeekSeek Ollama is very good at giving you details of it's though process and how it is working. You can play around with it, but it's quite technical depending on your background.

Generally though, the bit companies providing AI at the moment (Google, Meta, Anthropic) are spending billions, at a huge loss on massive AI systems. So, it's impossible to match what you can currently just hire from them. The assumption is once everyone is dependant on them and just a few companies dominate the market, the prices are going to ramp up to cover the losses - look at GitHub CoPilot and it's recent steep price increases.

If you really want an 'army to do your bidding' something like Claude Cowork is very (scarly) powerfull. It can take control of your PC and use programs installed on your PC, or install anything it thinks it needs or will help you with your day.

AI does have a place IMHO and can be a useful tool if researched an use learned or even better custom created. I was a long time student and supporter of AI. Most of my AI tools sit there now. Though I do find the ones added to audio and video editors still helpful. I do not like the AI support bots or AI built websites as most are very limited. AI making you money in most cases I find is a sales pitch to make many tool builders money selling you upsells.