Artist Will.i.am utilizing AI for brand new radio platform [Video]

Grammy Award-winning artist and actor Will.i.am is teaming up with AI to launch a new concept that may change radio as we know it.

As the founder and CEO of FYI.AI, a creative technology company, Will.i.am recently announced Radio.FYI, described as an AI-infused interactive conversational media platform that will transform traditional radio.

“Radio is awesome as it is. It’s giving you local information, but I can’t ask any questions. So I was like, yo, if there was a way to build and simulate radio format, have a DJ host that allows for the DJ host to have a million conversations at once,” he said. “No human can do that.”

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This app is different from what you’d expect from an AI. Will.i.am says he wanted his AI to speak like a regular person.

“What song is this? Who produced …