Description

Prajwal is a 16-year-old innovator focused on building AI projects that enhance the quality of life. He is a member of The Knowledge Society and received a grant from Ingenious+ for his JARVIS project—an AI assistant integrated into a hat, featuring image and voice recognition with low-latency conversations. Currently, he is working on CalendAI, an AI assistant designed to help schedule your life, and he will be journeying across Canada on The Boreal Express train.

When he first started out, he was a novice innovator and just another ordinary student "bored at classes". Today, he has recieved a $1,000 grant from Ingenious+ to continue building, showcased to hundreds at TKS Showcase for JARVIS, demoed to a demo-day event for CalendAI and is one of 50 selected from a global pool of applicants going on The Boreal Express across Canada for free.

In our conversation, today’s guest Prajwal offers frank and honest advice about how to start making progress, as he is showcasing his work actively to bring value to society and letting other people follow along his journey (having achieved accelerated growth in a matter of 3 months while in The Knowledge Society), and how anyone can make something cool if you put your mind to it.

Topics:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (01:04) - What does AI mean to you?
• (03:03) - What inspired you to get into AI?
• (04:16) - JARVIS Project and impact it's already making
• (06:35) - How long it took to make JARVIS
• (07:46) - Building CalendAI, an AI assistant
• (08:51) - The importance of building in public with your projects for securing unthinkable opportunities for a young person
• (10:51) - How has The Knowledge Society (TKS) contributed to the value of your dream?
• (15:54) - Vision for the future of AI and the role you see shaping it
• (18:09) - Selected one of 50 globally for the Boreal express for free! (hackathon in a trans-national Canadian train from Vancouver to Montreal)
• (20:40) - Learning the right technical knowledge
• (23:36) - Getting started with building in public
• (26:12) - Balancing building projects alongside school
• (28:21) - Opinion on the traditional school system and changes to be made (from a youth perspective)
• (32:28) - What are you going to be working on next?
• (34:39) - Who inspires you?
• (36:14) - Advice for youth generation having built high impact projects
• (37:58) - Closing question
• (38:55) - Find online
• (39:31) - Outro

Here are his highlight action items I took away:

1. Just start!
2. Read books (recommend Elon's biography by Isaacson and Atomic Habits)
3. "Look at what's around you, do you feel inspired? Your life it's just a cage if it's not pushing you higher". Being bored is like your life being caged. Do things that push you higher in life and to impact the world!

We hope you find value in our discussion and learn useful information!

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Prajwal:

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwal-prashanth/

  Website - https://prajwal.is-a.dev/

🎥 Directed by Josh

🗓️ Recorded on July 19th, 2024