One week after bringing music-creation capabilities to Mercedes-Benz automobiles with “Sound Drive,” Will.i.am has unveiled plans to co-host a SiriusXM program alongside an AI entity known as qd.pi.
The satellite-radio firm emailed Digital Music Information at present in regards to the weekly collection, entitled Will.i.am Presents the FYI Present, from the Black Eyed Peas founder. Scheduled to start airing on SiriusXM’s The 10s Spot (channel 11) on Thursday, January twenty fifth, the “interactive present” is about to “bridge collectively the most recent in AI innovation, music, popular culture and know-how,” in response to the concerned events.
Notably on the AI entrance – the seven-time Grammy winner Will.i.am beforehand mentioned his view of the unprecedented know-how throughout a DMN panel – the forthcoming program will characteristic SiriusXM’s “first ever AI co-host,” the Liberty Media subsidiary and the bestselling artist additionally emphasised.
Welcoming particular friends (Xzibit throughout week one, Recording Academy head Harvey Mason Jr. through the second installment) on the present as nicely, Will.i.am and FYI-powered qd.pi. are poised to “kick off a brand new period in radio,” per SiriusXM.
As a part of the venture, the AI co-host is anticipated to interact immediately with listeners “quickly” through an providing on the aforementioned FYI, which payments itself particularly as “a communication platform designed to serve the inventive neighborhood.”
Particularly given the business prominence and attain of Will.i.am, it’ll be value intently monitoring not solely the recognition of The FYI Present, however the potential for all method of different reveals (in addition to podcasts and extra) to embrace AI.
Evidently, AI hosts in radio and the overarching leisure house received’t draw salaries, turn out to be sick, have unusually flat showings, levy complaints of any type, take private days, require well being advantages, discover hassle exterior of “work” – and the disconcerting record goes on.
Relating to the breakneck pace at which the know-how is creating, it was simply final June that the “world’s first” AI DJ went reside on a serious radio station. On the time of this writing, a cursory check-in on the suitable station uncovered a climate report from an AI meteorologist of types.
Earlier in January, AI music generator Splash debuted an Alexa ability with which customers can create music through easy voice prompts. Additionally on the music aspect, 2023’s conclusion noticed Rightsify launch Hydra, which is alleged to allow one to generate high-quality customized tracks based mostly upon textual content inputs.