The world will be ‘fully automated’ soon says Jamaican after Google and Uber internships

LeAnn Lewis, a computer science graduate from Howard University in Washington DC.

Lewis, 23, recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science said her opinion is based on spending time working at Uber and Google – two of the world’s biggest tech companies.

“I see the world becoming mostly if not fully automated. What we are seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg for what's to come,” the Old Harbour Bay native said in wide-range exclusive interview with Old Harbour News.

As part of her dissertation Lewis had internships first at Uber, before spending a part of her final year at Google where she recorded a 4.0 GPA score on her exam there, the highest mark possible.

For years the world has been gradually pushing towards automation with humans now able to conduct a variety of businesses with the push of a button from  any smart computer device. Lately the automation process has gathered plenty momentum, triggered by the coronavirus pandemic besetting the world.

Being exposed to the intricacies at Silicon Valley, regarded as the epicenter of global technologies, have opened Lewis’ eyes to the window of the future.

“Google life was intriguing,” said the former Glenmuir High and American International School of Kingston (AISK) alumnus.  “There are so many more aspects to this life and career than people realize and Google was the first place that I got a ‘peek behind the curtain’ per say.”

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“Not to mention that, during my time there I, as well as some of my peers got the opportunity to tour many other Silicon Valley companies such as Uber, PayPal, and even Google's subsidiary, YouTube,” she added. “Being at one of the highest ranked tech companies, being able to learn from such talented engineers and exploring Silicon Valley was a dream made into reality. As for Uber, they only deepened that experience, I got full hands on experience working with a team of incredibly smart, talented and kind people on a project that actually would effect change in the company, if anything they both only served to solidify my resolve to find success in my field.”

Despite what’s about to unfold in the near future, Lewis said human-to-human interaction will remain invaluable.

She said while “I also see people possibly becoming so much more dependent on these technologies than they are now, and as a person whose life revolves around interacting with, iterating on and creating new technology, I see so much value in putting the tech down for a minute and having in person conversations, picking up new hobbies, maybe even playing an instrument”.