WEBVTT - will.i.am Talks Ethical AI Education and Innovative Agent Solutions

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. But we want to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about AI, I mean kind of across the platform.

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<v Speaker 1>We've talked a lot of that from a business perspective.

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<v Speaker 1>We talked about it from AI and the physical world.

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<v Speaker 1>Here we also want to talk about a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>more conceptually, and we want to bring into this conversation

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<v Speaker 1>right now. Will I Am. He's one of the more

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<v Speaker 1>credible celebrity to tech crossover stories out there. Of course,

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<v Speaker 1>he's a founder and CEO of f y I Dot AI,

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<v Speaker 1>nine time Grammy winner, co founder of the Black Eyed

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<v Speaker 1>Pas founding equity stakeholder, and Beats Electronics. He's an investor

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<v Speaker 1>in anthropic and open AI and Nvidia And I think

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<v Speaker 1>you just thought a college course over at ASU you

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<v Speaker 1>help students so to create their own agents. Will i

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<v Speaker 1>Am welcome to the program.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, thank you for having me.

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<v Speaker 1>It's good to see you guys talk about this. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, we talk a lot about this idea of

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<v Speaker 1>preparing the younger generation for this world they're going to

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<v Speaker 1>come into, which is going to be a lot different

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<v Speaker 1>from the world our generation came into with regards to

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<v Speaker 1>technology and AI. I mean, what were you talking to

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<v Speaker 1>those kids about.

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<v Speaker 2>So the students come into our class that I created,

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<v Speaker 2>of course I created called the Agentic Self that come

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<v Speaker 2>in with zero that you leave with the agentic Hero.

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<v Speaker 2>We guide them through ethics, pointing out some of the

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<v Speaker 2>trip wires that happened during social media, reminding them that

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<v Speaker 2>they have to be ethical. They're accountable for the agent

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<v Speaker 2>that they're going to be deploying out there into society.

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<v Speaker 2>And some of the students the things that they've turned

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<v Speaker 2>in for their final it was it's a sixteen week

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<v Speaker 2>credited course amazing companies by pointing out solutions to problems.

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<v Speaker 2>Pointing out problems and creating solutions to that problem. A

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<v Speaker 2>woman by the name of Claudia Company called Aki amazing

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<v Speaker 2>solution to vendors in the Global South and aren't connected

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<v Speaker 2>to the Internet, don't have you know, the knowledge of

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<v Speaker 2>building agents going there, giving them personal agents that they

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<v Speaker 2>can build, and that agent being accessible on a phone call.

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<v Speaker 1>So with this idea, when we talk about agents, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean it's scares a lot of people. Somebody say, oh, agent,

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<v Speaker 1>that just means somebody is gonna take my job or

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<v Speaker 1>something like that. Now you've done a lot to sort

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<v Speaker 1>of not only educate people about this. But I saw

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<v Speaker 1>a product that you had had, a teddy Bear. There

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<v Speaker 1>was it, mofo teddy Bear. Yes, okay, all right, but

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<v Speaker 1>this is AI within that basically an agent, a gentic

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<v Speaker 1>AI in that was it idea to kind of make

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<v Speaker 1>this a little bit I mean, I guess teddy Bear

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<v Speaker 1>is a human but for lack of a better word,

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<v Speaker 1>to humanize us a little bit more or what.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it's just the the it's a fusion of creativity

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<v Speaker 2>and technology. So the mofo is not a toy, So

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<v Speaker 2>on the box it says, I am not a toy. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a It's a tool to get work done in

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<v Speaker 2>the form of something that's expressive that you could communicate with.

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<v Speaker 2>We have our text to expression architecture, so we know

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<v Speaker 2>what text speech is, we know what ASR is, we

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<v Speaker 2>know what LM's are. We have this text to expression

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<v Speaker 2>so the agent's able to express itself give you cues

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<v Speaker 2>on your digital world where not everything should be verbalized,

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<v Speaker 2>right you knew, So there's other cues that you can

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<v Speaker 2>do that are outside of an emoji that you have

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<v Speaker 2>to type in text. So it allows the agent to

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<v Speaker 2>express itself for things that you are going to deem

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<v Speaker 2>with you and that device personal to you. More importantly,

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<v Speaker 2>it's an amazing art project, creativity at its highest form.

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<v Speaker 3>I do want to talk a little bit about Fyi

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<v Speaker 3>dot Ai and Firsonal. Let me say some of the

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<v Speaker 3>investments you've made, a lot of investors would like to

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<v Speaker 3>have that portfolio. But when it comes to what you've

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<v Speaker 3>created there, what is sort of the mission statement? What

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<v Speaker 3>are you trying to accomplish as Fyi dot Ai?

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<v Speaker 2>So two so have a I started my philanthropic endeavors

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<v Speaker 2>in two thousand and eight with my Iam Angel Foundation,

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<v Speaker 2>telling kids in the inner cities that they should apply

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<v Speaker 2>themselves in this conversation around you know, job creation, career creation,

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<v Speaker 2>and industry designing. Use your imagination to its full potential.

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<v Speaker 2>But when you tell a kid from the inner city

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<v Speaker 2>to take a science, technology, engineer and mathematics course and

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<v Speaker 2>you're not doing that yourself, how can you expect them

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<v Speaker 2>to take you seriously? So I started Fyi dot Ai

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<v Speaker 2>to show them like, hey, if I can do it,

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<v Speaker 2>you can do it. One of the things that we

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to solve is how people communicate and get work

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<v Speaker 2>done on a messenger to work on a messenger, you

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<v Speaker 2>need five different products to work on WhatsApp. You need Dropbox,

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<v Speaker 2>you need we transfer, you need zip files, you need

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<v Speaker 2>all these types of things. So on Fyi dot Ai

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<v Speaker 2>you could send gig sized files on the messenger. Each

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<v Speaker 2>each person I don't like using the word user is

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<v Speaker 2>granted an encryption key, so to ensure that your data

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<v Speaker 2>and your privacy is all locked under a key that

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<v Speaker 2>you own, that you keep your data is yours. Then

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<v Speaker 2>we've started building personal agents. There's our personal Agent tool,

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<v Speaker 2>so you can create and build your agent that reflects

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<v Speaker 2>your beliefs, your concerns, your point of view, and your

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<v Speaker 2>aspirations and where you want to go in life. So

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<v Speaker 2>your agent knows you. And we're about to show how

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<v Speaker 2>our system integrates with other legacy systems in the next

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<v Speaker 2>couple of weeks