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.

[160, 68, 285, 220, 278, 27, 218, 165, 81, 256, 105, 25, 107, 103, 29, 190, 134, 175, 74, 185], k=5
74