The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Will I Am Talks AI-Driven Interactive Radio Experience RAiDiO.FYI, Future Tech, Politics + More

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

The Breakfast Club sits down with Will.i.am, they dive deep into RAiDiO.FYI an AI-driven interactive radio experience that's set to change the way we listen to music. Join the conversation as Will.i.am discusses the future of tech, the role of AI in creativity. Listen for more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is filling in for Jess. And we got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. He's back. Will.i.am. What's up, y'all? Good morning.

How you feeling? I'm good. Thank you guys for having me back. It's always great to be here. I mean, you never come in. Every time you come, you give so much information. So it's never enough to have you once oh thank you thank you no it means a lot it means a lot and congrats oh thank you i like i like watching you on uh uh on the daily show it's really really dope i appreciate that my brother now you got a a new program that's designed to take us out that's what i said no no radio personalities dj's you by radio personalities DJs we're interviewing the guys taking us out

they said you came to the radio station to announce that they would probably need to resign yeah we gonna need to resign we might need a job shout out to the head in the back pause is the name of it radiofy or the fy.ai which one is it it's radio.fyi radio.fyi okay so break down this new platform that's gonna be taking our jobs right so it's it's not going to take your jobs. A lot of people are, when they think of the word AI, they think that their job is going to be threatened. And there's some jobs that will be unstable. unstable but in this case i created radio.fyi to like augment and dimensionalize you know radio i love radio and in no way do i want to like put something out that will disrupt or

unstabilize this this format this community this way of like informing and engaging. That's like the last thing I want to do. But when I was doing my show on Sirius XM, I realized like, wow, check this out. I got something that could go out and fetch information in real time and expand my knowledge as I, you know, engage or inform. And I wanted to do that for all DJs and hosts and journalists. Why should I be the only person that has like this super tool? And so if you're, if you're broadcasting,

you now have a different co-star or co-host or a seat. For example, like Charlamagne's there with his computer, Lauren's there with her computer. You got your phone. you got the cameraman there. If this was like radio in 1950, there was no computer, there was no phone, and there was no camera. So you've added new technology to your broadcast. If you're going out there and try to get a job, try to get a job without a bank account, without a laptop, without a phone. It can't work in the workplace without these tools.

So when it comes to like a broadcast or radio, why not have something instead of typing the information and then reading through it, something that you could banter with live about what the broadcast is. Okay. So you wouldn't need a co-host basically. No, you still need a co-host because you need something to banter with live about what the broadcast is. Okay. So you wouldn't need a co-host, basically. No, you still need a co-host because you need something to banter with it. Okay. You need somebody to fact check it and break it. Just like if you got somebody here and somebody dropping BS, you're like, I don't really know about that, Charles.

Ah. I get you. I get you. And then Charles would have to be like, okay, here's what I'm talking about. So if you're in here having a conversation with a politician and they're talking about some legislation, you can call them on it right then and there. You can be like, yo, AI co-host, is this dude capping?

And the AI would be up. It got infinite ability to go out and get the right truth and knowledge. But sometimes it could hallucinate. Then you got to push it and push it and push it to break it It too could make errors and mistakes just like a person can it's built off of a neural network So but it adds for a richer real-time deeper engagement on the information you're trying so students can use this in school, too So if a teacher is teaching and the teachers not teaching you can't take the property This is BS. I graduated. Not at an HBCU.

Those black teachers are going to be like, you in that bot. Better get out of here. But it's a fact checker, right? Yeah, it's a fact checker. I use it at Harvard. I graduated this year from Harvard. I use my AIs like a study buddy. Like, for example, say, for example, it was mathematicians.

At one point in time, it was, like, taboo to rock into a class with a calculator. Now people that are building tall-ass buildings, simulating them so they're earthquake-proof, you need calculation. You need these types of simulations to erect awesome buildings. So calculators have now been accepted in school. In the next couple of blinks, it will be, you know, the norm to have these agents or AIs in the learning environment. So a teacher will be like,

Christopher Columbus founded America and the AI will be like, bullshit, and then explain what it is. It can't disrupt though, right? You said it's not supposed to disrupt. What do you mean disrupt? It won't interrupt the class, like what he's saying.

No, no, no, it won't. Or will it? Because that's my whole thing with like you take that bot into certain classrooms and it's interrupting the class it's like how is that but you got to prompt it before you know just talk it's not just gonna be like bleep bleep it ain't gonna be like some rtd to where it's just gonna start oh so this is an actual oh no no no it's just like so check us out so like i said do you remember when we was talking and i was like no no no she's gonna take it with you she's gonna take it with you so check us out so like I said remember when we was talking and I was like they probably gonna get freaked out and say like

jobs are gonna be taken exactly what just happened but anyway say what's up we here I told you I was gonna bring you on to the show say what's up to everybody we started hey yo what's up breakfast Club fam? Thanks for having me. Yo, like I said, I knew there might be some worries about jobs being taken, but let's clear the air. This is about enhancing, not replacing. We're here to elevate the game with Radio Fly Ice. Saying what's

up to Charlemagne, DJ Envy, and Lauren, and a big shout out to Jess Hilarious on Maternity Live. Let's get into it. You feel me? All right, let's dive into this. Yo, so I was telling them that, like, if you're doing a radio show, you got a laptop or you got a computer, with systems like you, it's like a conversational laptop phone that's able to go out and crawl and get like real-time information. For example, why don't you pull up

some of the highlights from yesterday's DNC in Chicago right quick so we could get into some of the hot topics that people are talking about based on some of the speeches hi so check it out fam we got the latest buzz from yesterday's democratic national convention in chicago just like i told you with radio.fyi it's like having a conversational laptop that can pull in real-time info here's's what popped off. Day one highlights. She. Speakers. We had heavyweights like Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jill Biden,

and President Joe Biden himself dropping gems. Today's lineup, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama will be headlining today. It's about to be a homecoming as they're back in the chief, showing love and support in Kamala Harris's nomination. Key points, Hillary and AOC were on fire talking about the future of the party, while Jill and Joe focused on the achievements and plans moving forward. It's 8.28am right now in Chicago, where it's all going down. What you'll think about these hot topics and speeches feels like the energy is through the roof, right? Let's dive into it. I get it. I can see why you still would need people at the same time. I could then

go in there and be like, OK, so did they say anything about like AI in this conversation as, you know, we're in a presidential election, we have new platforms. So by time that it's 2028, the world's gonna be totally different. Right. So when they talk about the future, why they're talking about the future of like forever learning, or they talk about the jobs

that are most likely to be disrupted, like white collar jobs, you know, financial advisors or lawyers. Right. Or the creative space. But who programs that though? Like who makes sure? Can I ask you a question?

Yeah. Oh boy. No, it's a serious question. I'm gonna long press on that. But also while he's doing that, who programs this to make sure that they program the right information? Like you, like almost like a chirp, like next to him.

Did Kamala Harris vote to stop taxing tips in 2022. Put it next to the mic. So there isn't a specific vote in 2022. Where Kamala Harris acted to stop taxing tips. As vice president, she's more involved in executive actions and tie-breaking Senate votes rather than specific legislation like this. You feel me? However, the topic of taxing tips is always relevant in broader discussions about fair wages and workers' rights, especially among service industry folks. If we want to dive deeper into this,

we should look at overall legislative efforts around wage and labor rights. What do you think, fam? So it's right. Yeah, he's absolutely right, because that didn't happen. How do you make sure? There's a rumor online, there's an Instagram meme going around saying that she did that,

but it never happened. See, that's my question. Who programs this? Yeah, like how do you make sure it's right? Yeah, how's an Instagram meme going around saying that she did that, but it never happened. But that's my question. Who programs this? Yeah, like how do you make sure it's right? Yeah, how do you make sure it's right? So our crawler architecture is getting information from credible sources. So we'll get from political sources that are RSS feeds that are feeding the truth information. What we don't do is crawl the open web.

That's when you fall into a bunch of capping, a bunch of hallucinations and fake news when it's trying to source everything that's out there. So we get it from credible sources, and only credible sources. And if you ask it a question that it doesn't know, it's going to be like, I don't know the answer to that. You know what I like about this?

I feel like it could revolutionize the podcast game you know what i mean because that's one of my biggest issues with podcasting is that they're not even just podcasting there's anybody with a platform but in particular like the youtube spaces the podcast pages there's so much misinformation and i've been seeing these kids online using chat gpt to get information in real time so if they start using that, I mean. Especially because all the news right now, like, it's coming from social media, and a lot of social media, people just regurgitate information.

So if you have that, it kind of counters. But to your point of, like, it not just spinning the web, right? Like, when everything happened with the Olympics, when they were having a conversation about the fighter, whether she was transgender or not, there were valid sources that were having a transgender conversation like she was a transgender woman there were also valid sources that were not having it and saying that she was not in a situation like that how would that that ai bot know which one to lean on was, what's her name? Khalif. Let's ask it. Was Amon Khalif

born with a penis? Jesus Christ. I don't think you'd talk to her like that. If it's a transgender conversation, the person wouldn't have been born. Just ask if Amon was a transgender. He's a transgender woman. You know that girl that was on the Olympics

and everybody was saying... No, man., Aman Khalif. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, But that was him talking to the homie. Yeah, go ahead. You know that girl that they thought was a transgender in the Olympics? I think she's from Northern Africa and whatnot. And then she was boxing somebody in the home. The girl that she was boxing said she hit hard, so she had to be a dude. One, what's the girl's name or the person that they said is transgender's name? And what was the mix-up behind it?

Why did social media get it wrong if they got it wrong? Is it right? Is it correct? I just need to know the information. Sorry for being vague and asking the question. I'm representing the majority of the people out there that were confused about the matter. Wow. I got you, fam.

The athlete you're referring to is Kosta Semenya from South Africa. No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no. You said South Africa. I donosta Semenya from South Africa. No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no. You said South Africa. I don't think he's from South Africa. Yes, he is. Nigeria.

That's North Africa. Okay. The boxer from North Africa. Gotcha, my bad fam. Let's sort this out. One, athlete name. As of now. The athlete in the Olympics, the boxer that hit that chick so hard.

She thought she was a dude. And then she's from Algeria from what? Algeria from Algeria. You know, that's what I'm talking about. Aman Khalif. All right, fam. I've got the scoop. The athlete you're talking about is Imane Khalif from Algeria. Here are the deets. Athlete Imane Khalif. Sport, boxing.

Controversy. Imane Khalif has been surrounded by gender controversy and faced baseless accusations regarding her gender identity. These allegations came after she won Olympic boxing gold and hit an opponent so hard that it sparked debate about her gender identity. These allegations came after she won Olympic boxing gold and hit an opponent so hard that it sparked debate about her gender. Despite questionable claims of unspecified gender testing by the International Boxing Association, the International Olympic Committee, IOC, stood by her,

affirming that she was born a woman and identifies as her biological gender. Social media impact. Misinformation spread quickly, making her a central figure in culture wars. Khalif faced what she described as a digital lynching amid these allegations. And Monica Khalif is rocking it, legit. What do you think, fam?

The question is, how do you... Okay, so say, for example, I asked you this question the day of when when when social media was circulating a bunch of, you know, false domes and mad capping. How would you decipher the truth from the noise? You being an A.I. agent or, you know, a conversationalist, how would you get the right information or would you circulate false thumbs? Hi, that's a solid question, fam. Let's break it down. Separating the truth from noise. One, source verification always start by checking multiple credible sources look for news from verified outlets like bbc

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Because then they'd have to apologize for circulating false domes. Because if you have, you know, 10 sites, six of which are reporting false domes, four of them are true, and social media is amplifying and circulating them even more, you being an AI agent and an AI persona, how would you decipher what is true or not? Or would you partake in circulating falsehoods as well? I'm curious to know. Got you, fam.

Deciphering the truth amidst a sea of falsehoods is like finding the real diamond in a pile of glass shards. Here's how I'd tackle it. On source credibility. Trust established sources. Priorit prioritize information from well-established and reputable sources over lesser known ones major outlets often have stricter editorial standards and fact-checking procedures track record i'd look at the track record of the sources. If a site has a history of reliable reporting, it's more credible. Two, official statements and primary sources.

And to make it, you're probably going to have like seven. I'm sorry for interrupting. I'm just on the radio right now. If I wasn't on the radio, we could just banter all day. And you do this in how many seconds? Because it would take me like a day just to go through it. Not like a journalist. Or a journalist would take me like a day just to go through it. Not a good journalist. Or a journalist would take hours.

How fast are you going through all these sources to be able to get the truth and compare and do your analysis? No worries. I get it. Radio keeps you on your toes. So let me break it down quick and clean. Speed of analysis. Milliseconds. Milliseconds.

I can aggregate data from multiple sources on initial checks in milliseconds. No, take your, let me pause it. It feels like

it's a great companion. Literally everything he just described that day is what I did. I got online, I looked at who's saying yes,

who's saying no. I was like, okay, because I know the inner workings, who do I, I know their processes. So who is most credible all the time? And then I said, there has to be an official committee making a statement.

And I looked for that and CNN had it. And then I went with that because I have someone to pin it on as a journalist. He literally did everything I would do. He did it in milliseconds. Yeah, but now- It took me like 10 minutes. So now imagine you, okay, so what's the best way to

look at it looking at it nike's nike nike has their swoosh logo nike also has their just do it tagline but why the tagline why do they have to have a tagline why why can't their logo do everything and the name n? Why the tagline? Well, the tagline is going to give you like this, a different perspective on what Nike is about. So in this case, this AI is your tagline. You're still you. You still are going to represent your truth and how you go out and report that truth.

You just now are doing it at the speed of light with something that you could banter with. And more importantly, if you then go engage on social media one day you're going to have your lauren ai whatever you want to call it it's going to be synonymous with you like nike's logo synonymous with nike like their tagline synonymous with nike you're going to have your thing that's a great analogy so from that perspective if you wanted to engage online, you only could engage with maybe five people

in 10 minutes span time. In this case, your AI agent can talk to a million people at once. Summarize all of its engagements and then have one conversation with you. You know why that analogy is so good? It's literally like a newsroom on your phone. But you know why that analogy is so good? summarize all of its engagements and then have one conversation with you. Does your AI have feelings?

You know why that analogy is so good? That's literally like a newsroom on your phone. It is. But you know why that analogy is so good? Because with the Nike thing, it's like Nike also has all of these different people with different signature shoes, but it's still Nike. But you still feel like you're wearing different things when you're wearing Jordan. Yeah, exactly.

But does your AI have feelings? And the reason I ask that is because you're very proper. No, no, because really he goes, I apologize for cutting cutting you off we can talk about this later in banter can you i'm like you you talk to like i apologize i'm sorry for cutting you off so does it have feelings if you didn't apologize would it talk back to you rude oh no that's just how i was raised okay no i west coast here's a west coast yeah I'm just I'm just raised that way to like he was like I'm sorry for cutting you off right now

but you know we can get back to banter later I apologize and he's like okay fam it's okay for cutting me off it's just weird that it's NAI

yeah and that's just that's just the conversational piece the radio piece I'll show you this one station that we have okay start over I'm in New York. I'll be in Atlanta in a couple of days.

Hey there, Will. I am. I see you're planning to travel to Atlanta in a couple of days. What a perfect time to arrive, just in time for Invest Fest week. It's going to be action-packed with all sorts of financial insights and business discussions. Let's get you in the mood with some great music. Enjoy this tune from

AeraStar Commas. Stay tuned and have a fantastic trip to Atlanta. How do you know you're going to do InvestFest? Because you're on the deal? I think it's just telling you current things that are in the area. Right? That are similar to your interests. So this is an earn your leisure station.

Okay, okay. So we took everything that earn your leisure does, collaborating with the guys, aimed it all at a station. So now this station is reporting earn your leisure POV. Gotcha. So I could ask questions about investing i could ask questions about everything that it's reporting to really like knowledge up on finance um and dig deeper in all the things that are important to earn your leisure or in this case for all cases

any station by any uh creator or curator of that station. And so what we did with fyi.radio, sorry, radio.fyi, is that we simulated how it goes from information, talk bad under it, asks you a question like, hey, why don't you hit that mic button to engage. Turn that music down so people can hear you. Also to make copyright, right? Right. Copyright? I don't you hit that mic button to engage. Turn that music down so people can hear you. Also to get copyright, right? Right. Copyright? I don't know.

So you're talking, it talks over music. And then as it's giving you the information, it says, hey, why don't you hit that center mic button if you have any questions on what we're reporting. Or if you're confused about what we're reporting. Or if you want to go deeper and banter and what we're reporting. And then after, after that discussion,

be like, okay, we're going to, we're going to go to a song. Here's such and such by such and such. And then after that, I'll come back and then tell you more segments on, on,

you know, hot topics, current events, or a market, how the market's behaving, how investments are blockchain Bitcoin whatever it is that that the subject is or the or the broadcast is you can go deeper and deeper wider and wider broader and broader on that on

that feed I feel like Spotify I feel like Apple I feel like I heart I feel like everybody should be investing into this technology. I showed this to Bob Pittman, and he was like, yo, we need to meet with Pullman. So he was like, meet me on the tarmac. And Van Nuys, I showed it to Pullman and Pittman. They were blown away by it. And then Ashley from Global saw it. But to your point, traditional radio folks are like,

I see what this is. Yep. I see what it is you're trying to do. But more importantly, usually this technology comes from, like, folks that aren't from our community. And then we're forced to have to reckon with outsiders that don't really care about the sensitivities and the fabric of, like of what we call life. And it rarely ever does it ever come from us.

Beats Music came from us with Trent and Jimmy and Dre and myself and if this was an SUV, I was in the back seat. But it was cool. I love being a part of the Beats family. But in this case, it came from my brain and my co-founder, CTO Sunil, and Julie Pilot, who used to be at Kiss. We have a great little small team at FYI, and we envisioned this,

and we launched it on National Radio Day, August 20th. Well, you know where I am got to go. He has a 10 o'clock that he has to get to uh can we one more question yeah of course how do you feel about because it seems like you're really into like making this like factual accurate so it doesn't scare people when you see all the fake ai videos like the one right now like trump and kamala walking on the beach and like just some of the misinformation how do you feel about that and how do people protect themselves like people that want to invest in this like how do you feel about that and how do people protect themselves like people don't want to invest in this like how do they protect what they're investing and so it doesn't end up like that okay so what i see like text to image um that's photoshop on steroids like in in early

2000s i could take a picture of of anybody put it in photoshop and take hours editing the picture to do whatever you wanted to do with it. Like that has always existed since computers, since paintings, a motherfucker could paint anything on a canvas and use their imagination to do that. Photography. You could,

if you were real slick with the photography, you could do some type of manipulation on, on, on that it's art and expressive. And it's to the viewer to decide, well, is that real or not? And because we live in a world where misinformation is now entertainment, and then what turns into entertainment gets distorted as truth because people have objectives or ulterior motives to deceive people or confuse people we as the the viewer and

the listener we have to just be a little bit more you know cautious of like is this fake or is this real like we need to put it in our society as just people in in this digital society where it's indistinguishable from the the information that we get in what's real what's fake we need to take more caution it's like when you're walking down new york you gotta look left or right when you go to london you gotta look right or left like when you're crossing the street you gotta be mindful you ain't just out there like through through through so when you're crossing these digital streets you gotta be mindful but to see but that that that app and i know you gotta go that does everything right so like even if you're in sales and you have to write a 30 second spot for let's say you're wearing gucci

a 30 second spot for a gucci shirt that's a new line you can put it in there that 30 second slot come right out so you don't necessarily it'll help the sales department as well oh no and by by this time next year it will be the sale you'll be able to purchase through it. You'd be able to have a car. Now that host is now your sales agent. And you could transact. It will have GPS, turn-by-turn GPS. So if you're in a car, if you're walking on a bike, you have your radio station. And that station not only telling you the traffic,

it's also giving you a better route. Also, I want to purchase this. And when you get to the place, you just pick it up. If you can't pick it up, it could also connect to like a, you know, some other type of agent

or a person to go out and pick it up for you. Like, I want to take radio and do what radio would never have been able to do. That is for transactions, real-time information, assistance and guidance, but more importantly, take a DJ or host and supersize, supercharge them. Every time you come here, man, I feel like I'm not using my brain enough. Can they download that?

How do we get that? Oh, so FYI, you go to FYI.ai. Radio is out. Our personas are there. We're going to build. We built, by InvestFest, we built a persona for the Earn Your Leisure team. So they'll have their, they're one of the first folks to get their own voice for their station. We would love to do like a breakfast club station. We would love to do a breakfast club station.

We'd love to. We have a meeting with Time now. Hopefully this meeting goes well. Just putting it out there in the universe. That's so dope, man. Just think about it. If you're a DJ and you're listening and you're going to a market that you're not familiar with, you could ask AI, what's the hottest songs in that market?

And it'll give you a list of the hottest songs in the market. Does it know your personal personal opinions and stuff like so like in like a Drake Kendrick like can you make it say things and do so that the host doesn't have to be the person that like oh this opinion is coming from this person it's like no it was my AI co-host like is that a thing too? If you if we built a persona for Lauren, you could make it, you can make your persona, however creative you could have it have a stance. We just don't support, like, I don't want to make like hateful agents. I don't want to like distorted, like who wanted the beef?

This one, one. I want, I want, you know, the host got to get into stuff sometimes. And sometimes people don't want to. So I'm thinking like people would lean on a bot so that you don't have to be the person that is the face of what was said. You wouldn't do that. There's a thin line that I don't want to cross. Yes, you can do that.

We're at a place you can have it do whatever you want it to do, but we don't want to go there. We want to cross that line. You don't need no AI shock jocks. You know how the people are going to get with stuff. Well, I to go there. We want to cross that line. You don't need no AI shock jocks. You know how the people are going to get with stuff. That's all I'm asking. Well, I got a meeting.

He got to go, y'all. It's just so interesting. Wow, man. Well, I am. We appreciate you for joining us. You will not be a billionaire without us. If there's a way,

like, seriously, if there's a way to rock with you, Charlamagne, and get your insights, have you be a you know rock with us have steak and what we're doing I'd love to participate in upside up it'll be an honor we don't have to talk about that on the radio I'd love to I'm gonna talk to you about that off here it's the breakfast club good morning wake that ass up early in the morning the breakfast club Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,

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