At its core, AI is versatile and creative – AI4ALL – Medium

I remember the day, early in the SAILORS program last year, on which we all received these awesome SAILORS t-shirts. On the front, the SAILORS motto was written: "AI will change the world. Who will change AI?" At that moment, I felt excited, just like all the other girls, to wear my new t-shirt, but I don't think I fully understood the meaning of that catchy mantra until after the program. The motto meant so much more to me once I gained an understanding of the enormous implications of AI technology and of my potential to contribute to AI's revolutionary impact on society. At SAILORS, through the varied research project topics, daily lectures by AI professors in fields ranging from computational genomics to aeronautics to computational sustainability, and demos of cutting-edge technology such as haptics and self-driving cars, I realized how amazingly diverse AI's applications are and how creativity plays an essential role in spurring technological innovation.