The author is excited about exploring artificial intelligence topics, specifically generative AI, and aims to delve deeper into the field. They built an application on Azure using React for the frontend and a Flask API interacting with the Google Gemini 2.0 API for responses. The application is hosted on Azure’s PaaS service via Docker containers, with Nginx acting as a reverse proxy to handle port redirection. The author plans to further their expertise by exploring a dedicated infrastructure for running a local language model and building custom AI projects.