How artificial intelligence will affect our lives going forward is a question being figured out across pretty much all industries right now.
While many in the arts have expressed concerns over how algorithms learn from their work, Black Eyes Peas star will.i.am believes it actually should “inspire you to create”.
An early artificial intelligence supporter, he says: “If you’re basing what you’re going to do tomorrow off yesterday, you’re not growing.”
The music producer spoke to Sky News after giving a demo of his new AI radio app in London.
Rather than artificial intelligence being something with negative connotations, he insists its potential should “inspire better, broader, deeper, faster…[it] shouldn’t stop you from being human”.
As one of the most prominent voices to position himself in the pro-AI camp, his enthusiasm is certainly infectious.
Those who turned out to see the demonstration of his app-based platform RAiDiO.FYI got to see the musician and tech entrepreneur challenge one of his AI personas to make a joke comparing computer chips and guacamole chips with reasonably funny results.
He hopes listeners will come to interact and talk with AI presenters in the not-too-distant future.
But is it a gimmick or a taste of the future?
Sky News put it to will that some of his musical counterparts worry AI – with its instant ability for anyone to make a song in his style – waters down the music industry.
“I don’t think anything can water down our industry any more than TikTok has,” he responded.
“We used to listen to three-minute songs, now we’re down to nine seconds….TikTok and that algorithm, you know, changes what record companies are looking for, changes the architecture of the song… it’s watered down…we an ocean (sic).”
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