Can someone direct me to a sites and/or videos that can bring an absolute beginner up to speed with AI? To start, I'm not a programmer/computer scientist/et al... - I work in Finance and have, through my job, self-thought myself VBA for excel and outlook and would consider myself as being in the upper half of the population of people who write VBA creating browser apps for scraping (and interpreting site's DOMs in doing so), creating Arrays of multi-dimensional arrays (arrays of 3D arrays - haven't gone for a 4D array as I haven't needed to) and generally focused on making as efficient macros. I've (very) basic understanding of JAVA also (I even created an basic android app!).

By pure accident, learning the above has given me a massive interest in all thing related to IT developments and the massive development which I truly believe will be the development in Human History (for better or worse has yet to be determined!) is AI.

I want to know all that I can about AI so was wondering if you all could assist an absolute noob on the subject. I know nothing of Python (which seems the language of choice for AI) but anything that would help would be great.

I'm not completely naive to the fact the brightest minds in the IT world are are working on this and concepts are going to be difficult for someone like me but I'm willing to try!

Any and all help/suggestions are welcome!

Thanks in advance.
I think the best approach would be to pick up a good book that lays out the fundamentals very well.

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (AIMA) is a great place to begin with! It is used as a reference textbook for many university level AI courses. It has helped me quite a lot as a student.