Musician and technologist will.i.am took the stage at Qualcomm’s SXSW keynote on Tuesday to demo RAiDiO, the conversational AI platform he’s been developing for over a year. Unlike many assistants, RAiDiO can “reflect” on what’s being said, will.i.am claimed, and uses colloquial language in one of several realistic synthetic voices.
“It’s not just, like, an LLM chatbot,” will.i.am said onstage. “There’s some magic that’s happening there.”
RAiDiO, which will.i.am has spoken about before, has access to real-time info from the web, can understand conversations in multiple languages, and offers several streaming “radio stations” to choose from. will.i.am teased a collaboration with an unnamed automaker — to be announced later this week — that’ll bring the RAiDiO experience to cars.
