'This is really almost a steppingstone': Franklin High School senior creates AI keyboard

 

FRANKLIN, Wis. (CBS 58) -- A hometown high school senior's changing the way we look at artificial intelligence (A.I.).

Shamit Surana is a senior at Franklin High School, and before he's even crossed the graduation stage, he's founded Halokeys, a tech company focused on revolutionizing computer keyboards.

"You'll be able to get more work done and I think that's really a net positive gain to society as a whole," said Surana.

In addition to his high school studies, Surana is currently an AI researcher assistant at UW-Milwaukee.

Surana recently won the Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Northeast Region competition with his AI integrated keyboard.

"I think this is really something that has a large audience, in terms of everybody uses a computer nowadays," said Surana.

The design, which won Surana a $10,000 scholarship, uses graph neural network technology, helping predict your next keystroke.

"What if your keyboard understood you as a user and is able to predict that this is the command you want."

The young entrepreneur went on to say this is just the beginning.

"There really is a gap, I would say, in terms of where computers and everything are going, and our keyboards and other input devices haven't really caught up yet, and I think this is really almost a steppingstone for potential input devices," said Surana.

Tech giant Microsoft recently unveiled their operating system will have a special “copilot key” that launches the software AI chatbot.

According to Associated Press, the keyboard redesign will be Microsoft’s biggest change to PC keyboards since it introduced a special Windows key in the 1990s.