I'm a new (and young) hacker and I agree with what you are saying.

Are there any communities and/or forums of people who are passionate about building and hacking purely for the sake of passion that I can join?

As a continuation to this thread, for anyone interested, here's the link to a Discord community for developing and sharing GPT/AI tools to enhance everyday life:

https://discord.gg/579renpEPn

That's an extremely cool idea!

Research paper identifying high impact problems that can be solved by machine learning.

Link directly to paper PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05433.pdf

I want to start hosting meetups and lightning talks in Montreal Canada. Would anyone be interested?

Send me an email (bio), organizing something with a couple of others!

Your email isn't in your bio :/

Please send me an email here! [email protected]