Isabelle Zhou

During my MBA internship this summer, I worked on several data projects. My favorite project was building a "virtual analyst" for our strategy team using AI/BI Genie. AI/BI Genie is a new text-to-SQL data analysis tool that enables users to speak to their data in natural language and receive SQL-generated data tables and charts in return. Once properly set up and curated, it allows any business user to run data analytics queries.

It’s no secret that ChatGPT, Claude, and Poe have exploded into public awareness this year. Smart, reactive, and occasionally snarky, they’ve gone brazenly viral across the globe. In the last decade, artificial intelligence’s potential has drastically expanded through a nexus of scientific breakthroughs, data infrastructure, and increased computing power. We’ve seen a few inflections: • Machine learning classifiers gave us language translation, social media algorithms, and better medical diagnoses.

Friendships are the fundamental unit of human existence. Throughout the ages, our social relationships fed us information that kept us alive. Our ability to empathize and communicate with one another became the bedrock that built massive civilizations of the past and today. It is little surprise that our friendships have evolved as we've evolved.