How a High School Junior Made a Self-Driving Car

My fascination with machine learning began in early 2015, when I stumbled across genetic algorithms and neural networks. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kupe2ZKK58" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Popular videos on YouTube</a> showed virtual organisms seemingly magically evolving complex behaviors without any human input. The videos explained that the algorithms were as simple as the crossing over and random mutation that I’d learned in biology class, but I was still in disbelief that such a computer simulation was possible. So naturally, I wrote <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7ykemj3B4" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">my own simulation</a> to verify it was possible. After it actually worked, I was captivated, and I took a deep dive into <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjZBTDzGeGg&index=2&list=PLnvKubj2-I2LhIibS8TOGC42xsD3-liux" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">MIT’s open courseware series on AI</a>. I spent about two weeks watching one or two lectures per day, essentially binging an entire semester’s worth of introductory AI material. <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/how-a-high-school-junior-made-a-self-driving-car-705fa9b6e860">Visit Now</a>