AROC AI/ML Scholarship

Artificial intelligence is a new field that I am not only interested in but plan to pursue. It all started my sophomore year when I decided to start taking coding classes. As me and my classmates learned the basics of programming, we had the opportunity to create a program of whatever we wanted. My project was using python to create a funny program of a bug chasing students around, which was a funny moment that happened in my coding class a couple weeks before. The program involved many advanced coding components to make the bug move and chase the kids. Of course it wasn't a full on AI but it was a start. Later that year, a new app called chat gpt came out. I was extremely fascinated by it. I used chat gpt for different types of help. For example, when I had a challenging question from class I used chat gpt. When I was starting to learn Java and needed to fact check something, I used chat gpt. Artificial intelligence is something that I cherish, but it also scares me. I always knew I wanted to do something tech related and I’m still finding my niche on what I want to do exactly. I am looking at jobs such as software engineering, data science, and information technology. I have done research and have found videos about all tech jobs being replaced by AI. Whether this is true or not, concerns me, but I have an idea. I can work to create and manage AI. I love it and am fascinated by it so this would be perfect for me. Now, my goals revolve around AI in different corporate settings to better the world. One of my goals is to use AI to decrease misdiagnosis in the healthcare industry and to solve other errors that may take place. I dont want AI to do a human's job but I think it can be useful to prevent and correct mistakes. As someone who has suffered from two ACL tears, I am passionate about healthcare and I want to find ways to be involved in it through technology. I want to also bring all my knowledge about AI to the Caribbean, especially the US Virgin Islands where my parents were born and raised and where I have spent much of my childhood, visiting my grandparents and other extended family. As a young kid, when I visited St Croix and St Thomas, I would always be upset about how much catching up the USVI had to do with technology. I want to make technology as available in the USVI and the entire Caribbean as it is in the states, so that residents can have the same quality of life as people on the mainland.