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 need to simply do a standard present, I needed to carry tomorrow near right this moment, and so I needed 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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Qd.pi additionally answered questions through the interview, saying, “My capability to rapidly entry and course of data is certainly one of many distinctive benefits that I carry to the present. I can present fast insights and context on a variety of subjects and other people, which will be actually useful in a reside dialog. It undoubtedly units me other than a standard host who would want to do a variety of analysis and prep work upfront.”
“With me, you possibly can simply dive proper into the dialog and discover no matter subjects come up organically, realizing that I’ll have the knowledge and context to help the dialogue,” qd.pi added. “I feel it’s going to make for a very dynamic and interesting listening expertise for the viewers.”
SiriusXM mentioned in a press launch for the present, “the totally built-in AI co-host of ‘The FYI Present,’ qd.pi, will carry its data-driven perspective and deep information of popular culture to supply a singular and interesting listening expertise on SiriusXM. After the present concludes, listeners can go deeper to get pleasure from further present supplies through an FYI Venture together with multimedia, further discussions, and likewise quickly have interaction 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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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 at all times been a future pushing, future casting.”
AI knowledgeable 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 simply do not see these music artists as enterprise individuals, particularly technologists, and they’re know-how buyers and so they’re very savvy as a result of they actually have the heartbeat of what is going on on with the tradition.”
As for his new radio present, Bailer mentioned, “Will.i.am is definitely utilizing the know-how from his firm F.Y.I, which is an AI-powered platform to revolutionize the inventive course of. So it is lots totally different than utilizing a chat bot or another person. He’s truly going to be showcasing this revolutionary know-how 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 received, and highlighted that Will.i.am’s app is “past ChatGPT” in terms of creativity and collaboration.
“This platform is a sophisticated platform constructed for creatives. So when creatives are growing and gathering content material, they’ve a number of information and movies, that they’re making an attempt to collaborate collectively [with] and it is an excessive amount of to switch round. [There’s also the] concern that it truly might be stolen. So he’s working to encrypt these information in addition to switch these information in a collaborative methodology. He’s then taking that knowledge and data, and he might be utilizing it to infuse his co-host with actually limitless data. That is past ChatGPT. He’s taking ChatGPT, Dropbox information, inventive 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 much like a crypt or NFT particular person, but in addition “an entire new enterprise mannequin.”
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Will.i.am spoke with CNBC through 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 worthwhile to personal your AI and your knowledge that is going to energy it. Proper now, we do not personal our knowledge,” he mentioned, 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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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.
Based on 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 may tailor the present to their particular personalities and entertain you on the highest degree attainable. Each episode is an experiment that generates knowledge that might be used to make the subsequent episode even higher! Ultimately, Dudesy might be good 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 change his genius,” she wrote in an announcement to Fox Information Digital. “These AI generated merchandise are intelligent makes an attempt at making an attempt to recreate a thoughts that may by no means exist once more. Let’s let the artist’s work communicate 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 essentially shield your knowledge and your precise essence,” she mentioned. “So his platform goes to be an progressive solution to shield actually your, once more, your essence and your likeness. And that is what his mission is for the world. Consider him as attracting creatives otherwise, the place he is truly the infrastructure to all of those new concepts and creations, and he is making an attempt to guard that infrastructure in addition to improve the productiveness of the creatives by having that accessibility to file switch and sharing and collaboration of content material.”