will.i.am teaching AI at ASU- KTAR.com
PHOENIX – Musician will.i.am is taking up a brand new title this yr: Professor.
The Black Eyed Peas entrance man is teaching a course at Arizona State University this semester referred to as “The Agentic Self“, which focuses on synthetic intelligence and constructing AI brokers.
Agentic AI refers to synthetic intelligence that focuses on one particular space fairly than basic data and acts autonomously.
will.i.am mentioned the objective is to arrange college students for know-how that’s already being constructed, fairly than ready for it to reach.
“You could use AI or AI could use you,” he mentioned. “We want to encourage folks to use AI. And if you don’t use it, you know, you will be used, which is a horrible reality,” he mentioned.
will.i.am mentioned that whereas AI is rising, it hasn’t reached everybody but. He needs his college students to be prepared to assist small companies and on a regular basis folks construct AI brokers of their very own.
“Technology just isn’t slowing down. It’s dashing up. And so subsequent semester is simply going to be an accelerated model of what we have began. More capabilities, extra performance, extra ethics [and] extra accountability,” he mentioned.
The class is a hybrid course taught out of will.i.am’s Hollywood studio, with some college students in-person and others becoming a member of the course on-line.
will.i.am in contrast being in a university classroom to standing on stage as a musician. He famous his band carried out at ASU almost 30 years in the past.
“We played ASU and our music played on their college radio,” he reminisced. “Now, because of success, I started a business. We created a tool and that tool is now being taught at ASU.”
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