Week 4 Post 2

 I had a fruitful day at work today. I was able to accomplish the task that was given to me, which was creating my own dataset of hand gestures. Throughout this process, I learned a lot about reinforcement learning and its use in AI. I learned how the robot recognizes specific objects by using YOLO's bounding boxes to identify the objects and learn the procedure of interacting with that object. I absolutely love to be exposed to this side of AI and be able to witness the beginning of robots learning and teaching various tasks. I cannot even imagine how far the AI field will go in fifty years. Even now, the robots can already learn the task just by watching a video, identifying an object, and repeating after that object. And after mastering the skill, they can start teaching humans that skill. I am amazed by the progress in AI. The more time I spend working in the Robotics Lab, the more I realize that I want to pursue a Master's degree in AI, robotics, or machine learning. This experience helps me broaden my perspective on Computer Science and apply my creativity to the development of the bridge between humans and robots. Ever since I was a child, when I got my first computer, which was not new, I was always the one to try to fix it whenever it would have problems turning on or executing programs. Since that time, I knew that I loved being a part of creative solutions that help people get technologies that serve more efficiently and with fewer problems. My passion for technical issues and their solutions grows each day. Sometimes it makes me feel like I want to have problems with the technology that I am working on because if there are no issues, I feel useless and non-energetic. Such ideas of having those machines work perfectly fine makes me sad because whenever that time comes, people like me will be jobless and with a talent that is not needed in this world anymore. However, I am pretty positive that computer scientists still have a long time to go before creating a perfectly efficient artificial intelligence that can replace humans in all fields. That is why this spark in me is still alive and keeps me motivated to learn more and develop better.

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