The Beatles releasing ‘final’ record using AI to extract John Lennon’s voice

This is interesting …

The Beatles releasing ‘final’ record using AI to extract John Lennon’s voice

I always hoped the Beatles would get back together to make some new songs.

Now, thanks to Artificial Intelligence this is possible.

Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday.

McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles’ voices from background sounds during the making of director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary series, “The Beatles: Get Back.” The “new” song is set to be released later this year, he said.

Jackson was “able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano,” McCartney told BBC radio. “He could separate them with AI, he’d tell the machine ‘That’s a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar’.”

McCartney described AI technology as “kind of scary but exciting,” adding: “We will just have to see where that leads.”

The same technology enabled McCartney to “duet” virtually with Lennon, who was murdered in 1980, on “I’ve Got a Feeling” last year at Glastonbury Festival.

Source: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/13/news/nation/the-beatles-record-ai-john-lennons-voice/