Austin Z. Henley Associate Teaching Professor Carnegie Mellon University 12/31/2024I never intended to work with AI or ML. It more so happened along the way naturally from using whatever tools I needed for the task, and eventually it took over. I didn't even realize it at the time. Given that it is New Year's Eve, it seems appropriate to look back on my career to see how I got here. Let's go back to the year 2000 and walk through the major AI/ML projects I worked on. If statements and random num...