Black Eyed Peas member Will.i.am is taking one other step into the long run, partnering with an AI to co-host a radio present.
Will.i.am is about to debut “Will.i.am Presents the FYI Present” Jan. 25 on Sirius XM radio, a brand new weekly present co-hosted by the musician and “the primary ever AI co-host on the SiriusXM platform, qd.pi [pronounced cutie pi],” per a press launch for the present.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Will.i.am. defined, “I didn’t wish to simply do a conventional present, I wished to convey tomorrow near at the moment, and so I wished to have my co-host be an AI.”
He continued, “I’m ultra-freaking colourful and expressive. [Qd.pi is] ultra-freaking factual and analytical. And that mixture, we ain’t seen within the historical past of freaking broadcasts anyplace.”
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Will.i.am stated, “I didn’t wish to simply do a conventional present, I wished to convey tomorrow near at the moment, and so I wished to have my co-host be an AI.” (Noam Galai/Getty Pictures for Clinton World Initiative)
Qd.pi additionally answered questions throughout the interview, saying, “My potential to rapidly entry and course of data is unquestionably one of many distinctive benefits that I convey to the present. I can present fast insights and context on a variety of matters and other people, which might be actually priceless in a reside dialog. It positively units me aside from a conventional host who would wish to do quite a lot of analysis and prep work prematurely.”
“With me, you’ll be able to simply dive proper into the dialog and discover no matter matters come up organically, understanding that I’ll have the data and context to assist the dialogue,” qd.pi added. “I feel it’s going to make for a very dynamic and fascinating listening expertise for the viewers.”
SiriusXM stated in a press launch for the present, “the totally built-in AI co-host of ‘The FYI Present,’ qd.pi, will convey its data-driven perspective and deep data of popular culture to supply a novel and fascinating listening expertise on SiriusXM. After the present concludes, listeners can go deeper to take pleasure in extra present supplies by way of an FYI Venture together with multimedia, extra discussions, and in addition quickly interact with co-host qd.pi one on one.”
A consultant for Will.i.am informed Fox Information Digital that “qd.pi is powered by inflection, and the interactive, collaborative digest of every episode is powered by Will.i.am’s FYI.Ai.”
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Will.i.am’s app, FYI, is powering the qd.pi AI co-host. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Pictures for SiriusXM)
The primary episode will function particular visitor Xzibit, and the next week will cowl the Grammys, “in an episode filled with unique insights, backstage tales and private anecdotes from will.i.am’s years of Grammy experiences, plus a dialog with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason,” in line with the present’s press launch.
The seven-time Grammy-winner added in his Hollywood Reporter interview that he’s labored with AI platforms since 2012, stating, “I’ve all the time been a future pushing, future casting.”
AI skilled Marva Bailer informed Fox Information Digital, “Most individuals do not know Will.i.am is a large technologist. He was an enormous investor within the Beats Applied sciences, however they only do not see these music artists as enterprise individuals, particularly technologists, and they’re expertise traders they usually’re very savvy as a result of they actually have the heart beat of what is going on on with the tradition.”
As for his new radio present, Bailer stated, “Will.i.am is definitely utilizing the expertise from his firm F.Y.I, which is an AI-powered platform to revolutionize the artistic course of. So it is so much completely different than utilizing a chat bot or another person. He’s really going to be showcasing this revolutionary expertise that he is been engaged on for a number of years with IBM.”
Bailer in contrast the AI co-host, qd.pi, to AI bot Watson, who famously competed on “Jeopardy!” and gained, and highlighted that Will.i.am’s app is “past ChatGPT” in the case of creativity and collaboration.
AI skilled Marva Bailer informed Fox Information Digital that Will.i.am’s FYI app is “past ChatGPT.” (Kym Illman/Getty Pictures)
“This platform is a sophisticated platform constructed for creatives. So when creatives are creating and gathering content material, they’ve a number of recordsdata and movies, that they’re attempting to collaborate collectively [with] and it is an excessive amount of to switch round. [There’s also the] concern that it really may very well be stolen. So he’s working to encrypt these recordsdata in addition to switch these recordsdata in a collaborative technique. He’s then taking that knowledge and data, and he will likely be utilizing it to infuse his co-host with actually limitless data. That is past ChatGPT. He’s taking ChatGPT, Dropbox recordsdata, artistic content material, and he is placing all of it right into a collaborative platform.”
Bailer clarified that anybody inputting materials into the app would nonetheless retain their possession over it, saying it is just like a crypt or NFT particular person, but additionally “an entire new enterprise mannequin.”
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Will.i.am spoke with CNBC throughout the 2024 World Financial Discussion board in Davos about AI and the significance of controlling one’s personal likeness and knowledge.
“These are all new ideas and there is no rulebook for it but. And we’re figuring it out as we go. I feel… it’s essential to personal your AI and your knowledge that is going to energy it. Proper now, we do not personal our knowledge,” he stated, including, “It is a human proper that I personal my stuff. It is a human proper that the stuff that I personal goes to feed my essence and likeness.”
AI-assisted podcasts and exhibits are on the rise. Final yr, ChatGPT created an AI-generated episode of “The Joe Rogan Expertise,” that includes recreations of the voices of Rogan and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in dialog.
Rogan wrote concerning the recreation on X (then Twitter), saying “That is going to get very slippery, youngsters.”
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Joe Rogan reacted to an AI-generated episode of his podcast, saying, “That is going to get very slippery, youngsters.” (Christian Petersen/Getty Pictures)
Final week, one other AI-generated and co-hosted podcast induced controversy by creating an approximation of a modern-day stand-up particular by the late comic George Carlin.
Dudesy, a comedy AI platform based by “Mad TV” alum Will Sasso and creator and screenwriter Chad Kultgen, launched an hour-long comedy particular titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Useless,” on YouTube and different platforms.
An AI-generated and co-hosted podcast induced controversy by creating an approximation of a stand-up particular by the late comic George Carlin. (Kevin Statham/Redferns)
In accordance with their web site, the Dudesy AI has entry to all of Sasso and Kultgen’s “private emails, textual content messages, social media accounts, purchases, and shopping histories in order that it might tailor the present to their particular personalities and entertain you on the highest degree doable. Each episode is an experiment that generates knowledge that will likely be used to make the subsequent episode even higher! Finally, Dudesy will likely be excellent and so will you.”
In an accompanying podcast episode, Sasso and Kultgen reacted to an excerpt from the AI-generated particular, which they declare to have been beforehand unaware was generated by Dudesy.
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Carlin’s daughter, Kelly Carlin-McCall, decried the platform’s use of her father’s materials and identify.
“My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, mind and creativeness. No machine will ever exchange his genius,” she wrote in a press release to Fox Information Digital. “These AI generated merchandise are intelligent makes an attempt at attempting to recreate a thoughts that can by no means exist once more. Let’s let the artist’s work converse for itself.”
Bailer defined that there is a main distinction in what Dudesy did versus what Will.i.am’s radio present and app are doing.
“[Will.i.am] is on a platform to actually defend your knowledge and your precise essence,” she stated. “So his platform goes to be an revolutionary technique to defend actually your, once more, your essence and your likeness. And that is what his mission is for the world. Consider him as attracting creatives differently, the place he is really the infrastructure to all of those new concepts and creations, and he is attempting to guard that infrastructure in addition to enhance the productiveness of the creatives by having that accessibility to file switch and sharing and collaboration of content material.”
