Should you study neural networks now? Or has the train left?

Here is a visualization of neural network usage statistics worldwide.

This grid contains 2,500 squares, each representing 3.2 million people. Total: 8.1 billion, the entire world population.

84% (6.8 billion) have never opened a single chatbot or interacted with AI in any form. That's the gray mass.

16% have tried free ChatGPT or an equivalent at least once. The thin green line.

0.3% pay ~$20/month for premium AI access. The almost invisible yellow line.

0.04% are developers and advanced users: writing agents, working in Cursor and Claude Code, building products. The red dot in the corner.

Neural networks in their working and truly useful form are only just being born.