row.

What would happen if you're at a concert and somebody is really good? Are you going to give them the mic? I'm like, yeah.

You're supposed to share the stage, right? I'm like, yeah.

She's like, well, that's what you do in class.

And so from there, I realized that I should write my chorus like a song.

I have my opening monologue.

What's wrong with the world, mama? People living like they ain't got no mamas.

You don't ever worry about the amount of material being scraped or your voice or your likeness? There being AI-generated versions of yours, you can accept that?

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn.

Yeah.

So he was also a founder of Inflection with Mustafa Suleyman.

Matty from Eleven Labs is another one.

We have our quarterly dialogues, like, "Hey, Matty, da, da, da.

Okay, let's catch up.

What are you seeing out there?" "Here's what I'm seeing out there." "Oh, what's coming next on the pipeline?" "Hey, maybe you should think about this." So Matty is, Matty's one of the good guys as well.

How did that go down?

It's interesting.

I wanna show the process of, like, so, "Fool, fool's gone wild.

Sick ass fools.

The sick ass fools." So then I'll pitch it down, then I'll slow down the track, and then I'll sing it-

Yeah

... at a lower pitch.

So then when I speed it back up, it's even more like a girl voice.

And then I take that, and then I'll throw a AI v- ...

We're going to sell speakers.

And then Jimmy's like, you want to be a part of it? I'm like, no, I was talking about like computer computers, like tech tech phones.

He's like, we're going to start with headphones for Dre.

Yeah.

You get your crazy wild ideas with technology.

Because you like this stuff.

We use Dre's brand.

So where do you want in your own, knowing you have maybe 50 years left of life, where do you, how do you want this to cook for you? Do you want to work for a brand? Do you want to create more things off FYI? Do you want to be a thought leader? Like tell me where you want to be personally in this space as it evolves.

Yet.

You're prompting now.

In a couple of moments you're not gonna have to prompt.

It's gonna make stuff on its own, and it will understand the algorithm as the algorithm happens.

We're ...

We don't understand why the algorithm it ... and what it is.

We're guessing how to go viral.

Mm.

So, Michael, without further ado, my friend, why don't you go ahead and unmute yourself and share your takeaway from the month of May.

It's Will.i.am.

Thank you,

Will.i.am.

I love it.

My takeaway is actually, I think, a fan favorite.

It's an OG one as well in the sense of you're either humble or you're about to be.

I feel like what I've done and I continue to do is, especially this month, is really trying to push myself both physically, personally, and emotionally in different ways.

Right.

Um, there's obviously a business that...

A- a- and I'm, and I'm biased to what I'm about to say because I know people that went to prison for a long time when they were selling weed when it was illegal.

Now that they've gotten out, you would think they're gonna get out and be the best weed seller, but they can't even do that in a way where now it's billboard.

There are bill- weed billboards.

And folks that have, that have, you know, spent a, a lifetime doing something that's now legal, that to me is, is heartbreaking.

And if they were, if they were to come back into the community and have that dispensary, um, but having a license to...

[laughs]

I mean, what were you talking to those kids about?

So the students come into our class together.

that I created, the course I created called The Agentic Self.

They come in with zero, they leave with the agentic hero.

We guide them through ethics, pointing out some of the tripwires 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's a 16-week accredited course.

Amazing companies by pointing out solutions to problems.

But when it comes to what you've created there, what is sort of the mission statement? What are you trying to accomplish with FYI.ai?

Mm-hmm.

Like if, if Oprah was walking down the street and was to trip, people would whip their phones out before they say, "Are you okay?" If I was to walk down the stairs and fall, people pull out their phone before they say, "Hey, are you all right?" And that's this...

For what, though? So they can post it for likes? And the likes don't benefit you at the, at the end of the day.

It benefits the four data monarchy.

There, there's these four kingdoms called Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple, and in the order that I said, Apple was a little bit more open and controlled with their, with their data.

They're not as data hungry because they sell a product.

So there's a part of me that is optimistic, but then I'm concerned on just pay attention.

Right

Tell us a little bit about the background story on Trinity.

So yeah, I'm hyper creative, love to collaborate.

This is the sixth vehicle that I've made.

The first one with intentions on building the fleet.

The reason why I want to build the fleet in the community that I come from is to teach the community and folks around the surrounding area robotics.

So the manufacturing assembly facility will also act as a robotics center with a genetic education where folks are building the brain of the agent through our platform that we created here.

So we have a DGX inside of the vehicle.

How do you see the work that you're doing impacting, you know, students in STEM and, you know, their ability to build in robotics and AI? How do you see your work impacting that down the road?

[laughs]

Now there's, there's accelerated brain rot that's, that's popping off.

There's gonna be, like, psychological conversational dysmorphia because people are gonna be introverts because they can't perform at the speed at which they've been communicating with some agent, some, you know, village bot.

We're all gon- people are now, right now, sharing the same...

We're, we're sharing the, the communal AI, and giving yourself to a company's system, um, all the while.

And then you're gonna go and communicate with humans, and you're gonna get impatient because a human's like, "Wait, wait, and, uh, uh, uh..." And you're like, "Hurry up, give me the goddamn answer," 'cause you're so used to talking to, like, this rapid, um, you know, non-human entity that's spitting out things fast, and humans don't communicate that way.

So people are gonna get impatient with humans.

[laughs]

So what came to your mind when you were watching outside, and what you did not want to be when you were watching that?

So when you're in a poor neighborhood, uh, look, you don't know you're poor, because everyone's poor.

You only know you're poor when you see how someone else is living.

And be- and because I went to Brentwood and I saw how people were living, I'm like, "How ...

Why are you living like this, and I'm living like that? Like, what are we doing wrong?" But it wasn't till I met a Persian family, Ms.

Sharif, and I asked, you know, "How do you live like this?" 'Cause she was a single parent, had two beautiful daughters, and she was like, "Will, I work really hard.

I come from Iran after the, the civil war, and I work really hard.

But would you take that pill, and what is the societal impact to all of those things?

Then we're friends.

This is all being recorded.

Just for the record.

Okay?

So what

we were talking about back then was AI.

And the video that came right after that was a song called I'ma Be Rockin' That Body that low-key, high-key predicts like text to music before there was LLMs and diffusion models.

And I learned- Just be rockin', rockin'.