As a typical high schooler goes about their day, it’s likely that machine learning has played a considerable role: Alexa or Google Home reported the weather as you got up; your news app served you articles that you are most likely to be interested in; at school, Google Docs assisted you by suggesting words as you type; scrolling on Facebook on your way home, it has tagged you in photos your friends uploaded. It is clear that machine learning is having a big impact on our lives.

I truly believe the technology that will change everything the most over the long run is artificial intelligence or AI.

I am someone who prefers to spend as little time as possible in front of a screen, but since the beginning of the pandemic, like millions of people, I spend almost all my time in front of my computer and phone screens.