{"id":734,"date":"2021-01-06T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machine-learning.webcloning.com\/2021\/01\/06\/in-a-quarantine-slump-how-one-high-school-student-used-ai-to-to-stay-on-track\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T19:49:09","slug":"in-a-quarantine-slump-how-one-high-school-student-used-ai-to-to-stay-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/2021\/01\/06\/in-a-quarantine-slump-how-one-high-school-student-used-ai-to-to-stay-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Quarantine Slump? How One High School Student Used AI to to Stay on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian high schooler Ana DuCristea has a clever solution for the quarantine slump.<\/p>\n

Using AI and natural language processing, she programmed an app capable of setting customizable reminders so you won\u2019t miss any important activities, like baking banana bread or whipping up Dalgona coffee.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s emblematic of how a new generation \u2013 with access to powerful technology and training \u2014 approaches the once exotic domain of AI.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, deep learning was the stuff of elite research labs with big budgets.<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s the kind of thing a smart, motivated high school student can knock out to solve a tangible problem.<\/p>\n

DuCristea\u2019s been interested in coding from childhood, and spends her spare time teaching herself new skills and taking online AI courses. After winning a Jetson Nano Developer Kit<\/a> this summer at AI4ALL, an AI camp, she set to work remedying one of her pet peeves \u2014 the limited functionality of reminder applications.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s long envisioned a more useful app that could snooze for more specific lengths of time, and set reminders for specific tasks, dates and times. Using the Nano and her background on Python, DuCristea spent her after-school hours creating an app that does just that.<\/p>\n

With the app, users can message a bot on Discord requesting a reminder for a specific task, date and time. DuCristea has shared the app\u2019s code on Github<\/a>, and is planning to continue training it to increase its accuracy and capabilities.<\/p>\n

Key Points From This Episode:<\/b><\/h2>\n

Her first hands-on experience with the Jetson Nano has only strengthened her intent to pursue software or computer engineering at college, where she\u2019ll continue to learn more about what area of STEM she\u2019d like to focus on.<\/p>\n