Rapid Response: Will.i.am is using AI to re-make radio

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

While some artists complain that AI uses their music as training data, Will.i.am argues that it’s no different than Prince and Michael Jackson taking inspiration from James Brown. Will joins Rapid Response to talk about his investments in the “dawn of intelligent media,” including his new app RAiDIO.fyi — AI technology that he contends will be pre-installed in every car of the future. Will shares surprising lessons from his MBA studies at Harvard, why developers are like rappers, how he works with Mercedes, and more.

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, Jeff Berman here. I want to recommend another podcast for you.
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0:08.9	On weekdays, they cover the news that's moving your portfolio.
0:12.6	And on weekends you find longer interviews and classes on investing you probably wish you'd
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0:29.2	Because I love radio so much I want to innovate and help out the realm that changed my life.
0:37.0	Radio. FYI is the dawn of intelligent media and a year and a half, two years,
0:45.0	radio dot FYI will be in every single car's dash.
0:49.0	No small aspirations for this, huh?
0:52.0	Yo, bro. Let me tell you something about aspirations.
0:57.0	You can't spell ambition without AM,
1:01.0	and you can't spell will I am without AM and you can spell will I am without AM.
1:03.4	That's Will I Am.
1:10.5	That's Will I Am the musician, investor, and entrepreneur.
1:14.0	Will's company FYI recently launched an app called Radio.
1:19.0	FYI offering curated radio stations with AI hosts that users can interact with in real time.
1:26.8	I wanted to talk to Will to understand how Radio. FYI plays into his wider view on the future of AI and how AI might impact music, media, and commerce.
1:37.0	Will's getting his MBA at Harvard right now, and so he shares why the lesson that's stuck with him most is a case study about
1:45.2	spinning lollipops. He also talks about how a musician's early influences are like
1:50.8	AI training data, how AI developers are like wrappers, what's behind
1:55.4	his partnership with Mercedes and so much more.
1:58.3	In classic will fashion, I never knew quite where he was going next. Let's get into it. I'm Bob Safian and this is
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