Instructions: In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.
Input: [175, 30, 11, 227, 144, 89, 93, 107, 103, 283, 100, 33, 186, 12, 75, 287, 206, 98, 87, 78], k=2
Output:
12