Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. But we want to talk about AI, I mean kind of across the platform. We've talked a lot of that from a business perspective. We talked about it from AI and the physical world. Here we also want to talk about a little bit more conceptually, and we want to bring into this conversation right now. Will I Am. He's one of the more
credible celebrity to tech crossover stories out there. Of course, he's a founder and CEO of f y I Dot AI, nine time Grammy winner, co founder of the Black Eyed Pas founding equity stakeholder, and Beats Electronics. He's an investor in anthropic and open AI and Nvidia And I think you just thought a college course over at ASU you help students so to create their own agents. Will i Am welcome to the program.
Oh, thank you for having me.
It's good to see you guys talk about this. I mean, I mean, we talk a lot about this idea of preparing the younger generation for this world they're going to come into, which is going to be a lot different from the world our generation came into with regards to technology and AI. I mean, what were you talking to those kids about.
So the students come into our class that I created, of course I created called the Agentic Self that come in with zero that you leave with the agentic Hero. We guide them through ethics, pointing out some of the trip wires that happened during social media, reminding them that they have to be ethical. They're accountable for the agent that they're going to be deploying out there into society.
And some of the students the things that they've turned in for their final it was it's a sixteen week credited course amazing companies by pointing out solutions to problems.
Pointing out problems and creating solutions to that problem. A woman by the name of Claudia Company called Aki amazing solution to vendors in the Global South and aren't connected to the Internet, don't have you know, the knowledge of building agents going there, giving them personal agents that they can build, and that agent being accessible on a phone call.
So with this idea, when we talk about agents, I mean it's scares a lot of people. Somebody say, oh, agent, that just means somebody is gonna take my job or something like that. Now you've done a lot to sort of not only educate people about this. But I saw a product that you had had, a teddy Bear. There
was it, mofo teddy Bear. Yes, okay, all right, but this is AI within that basically an agent, a gentic AI in that was it idea to kind of make this a little bit I mean, I guess teddy Bear is a human but for lack of a better word, to humanize us a little bit more or what.
No, it's just the the it's a fusion of creativity and technology. So the mofo is not a toy, So on the box it says, I am not a toy. Yeah, it's a It's a tool to get work done in the form of something that's expressive that you could communicate with. We have our text to expression architecture, so we know what text speech is, we know what ASR is, we
know what LM's are. We have this text to expression so the agent's able to express itself give you cues on your digital world where not everything should be verbalized, right you knew, So there's other cues that you can do that are outside of an emoji that you have to type in text. So it allows the agent to express itself for things that you are going to deem with you and that device personal to you. More importantly, it's an amazing art project, creativity at its highest form.
I do want to talk a little bit about Fyi dot Ai and Firsonal. Let me say some of the investments you've made, a lot of investors would like to have that portfolio. But when it comes to what you've created there, what is sort of the mission statement? What are you trying to accomplish as Fyi dot Ai?
So two so have a I started my philanthropic endeavors in two thousand and eight with my Iam Angel Foundation, telling kids in the inner cities that they should apply themselves in this conversation around you know, job creation, career creation, and industry designing. Use your imagination to its full potential. But when you tell a kid from the inner city to take a science, technology, engineer and mathematics course and you're not doing that yourself, how can you expect them
to take you seriously? So I started Fyi dot Ai to show them like, hey, if I can do it, you can do it. One of the things that we wanted to solve is how people communicate and get work done on a messenger to work on a messenger, you need five different products to work on WhatsApp. You need Dropbox, you need we transfer, you need zip files, you need all these types of things. So on Fyi dot Ai
you could send gig sized files on the messenger. Each each person I don't like using the word user is granted an encryption key, so to ensure that your data and your privacy is all locked under a key that you own, that you keep your data is yours. Then we've started building personal agents. There's our personal Agent tool, so you can create and build your agent that reflects your beliefs, your concerns, your point of view, and your aspirations and where you want to go in life. So
your agent knows you. And we're about to show how our system integrates with other legacy systems in the next couple of weeks