How Should I Get Started with Machine Learning without a Technical Background?

I think that if you read Deep Learning chapters 1–5, you should be able to learn everything you need for that project except the Python programming. It's a little bit hard for me to know how feasible that is because it's hard to put myself in the position of someone coming in with no technical knowledge. It will obviously take a lot of patience and effort to absorb that much material rapidly starting from zero, but we tried to put enough detail in the book that you could get that far.