New Song by The Beatles Created Using Artificial Intelligence

Years after The Beatles ceased their activities, a new song from this famous music group is being released. Paul McCartney, one of the main members of The Beatles, said on Tuesday that this piece was produced using artificial intelligence, and John Lennon's voice was extracted from an old recording. According to the Associated Press, the 80-year-old McCartney told BBC Radio that this technology was used during the making of the documentary series 'The Beatles: Get Back' to separate the voices of the group members from background sounds in old archives. This three-part documentary by renowned New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson was released via Disney's streaming service in 2021. McCartney stated that Peter Jackson was able to extract John Lennon's voice from an old cassette using artificial intelligence. He added that this old performance by Lennon was a 'demo' that The Beatles were working on but never reached the performance stage. McCartney extracted and reconstructed Lennon's voice from this demo, which will be used in the mix of a new song that will be available to fans this year. While McCartney did not mention the title of this demo, some say that this unfinished romantic piece is called 'Every Now and Then,' recorded in 1978. The cassette of this demo was sent to McCartney by Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow, after her husband's death. According to McCartney, artificial intelligence is a 'scary yet exciting' technology, and we must wait to see where it leads humanity. The British singer had a duet performance with John Lennon using this technology at the Glastonbury music festival last year, which received significant attention. Holly Herndon, a multidisciplinary artist with a PhD in composition from Stanford University, is one of the figures who used artificial intelligence to produce her latest album in 2019. According to the Associated Press, she states that the new Beatles song was likely produced using a process called 'source separation.' This expert adds, 'Source separation has been greatly simplified with machine learning, allowing users to extract and separate a voice from a song and accompany it with new instruments.' Source separation is different from 'deepfake' technology, which creates entirely new vocal lines based on a model trained on old audio lines. According to Holly Herndon, it does not seem that the new Beatles song was produced using deepfake technology. Paul McCartney is set to open an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London later this month, featuring unseen photographs from The Beatles' early days when they rose to global fame. This exhibition includes over 250 photos taken by McCartney himself in 1963 and 1964 of group members such as Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon, and also Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager. This article is based on a report by the Associated Press.