Artificial intelligence makes it possible to complete a Beatles song

legendary British musician Paul MCCARTNEY admitted this Tuesday that he had resorted to Artificial Intelligence help create a “definitive record of The Beatles“, in the voice of the deceased John Lennon. Speaking on the program Today of the BBC, McCartney, 80, said the technology was used to “extract” Lennon’s voice from an old music demo so he could complete the song. “We have just finished it and it will be released this year”, explained the former member of the “fabulous four” from Liverpool, although he did not name the song, although it is estimated, reported by the BBC and Efe, that it would be the composition of Lennon’s call now and thenwhich dates from 1978.

That composition, which McCartney received from Lennon’s widow, that’s itit was originally considered part of a compilation of Beatles material in 1995. However, according to McCartney, George Harrison he admitted that the song was “rubbish” and refused to work on it. “It didn’t have a very good title, it needed a bit of reworking, but it had a beautiful line and John sang it,” he said. “(But) George didn’t like it. Because the Beatles are a democracy, we’re not.”

The BBC says the turning point came with the documentary to return by Peter Jackson, from a few years ago, which trained computers to recognize the Beatles’ voices and separate them from background noise and even their own instruments to create a “clean” sound. “He (Jackson) was able to extract John’s voice from a small tape,” McCartney told Radio 4. “We had John’s voice and the piano and he was able to separate them using artificial intelligence. They say to the machine: ‘That’s a voice. This is a guitar. Take out the guitar,” explained the musician. So it was possible to take John Lennon’s voice and get it pure using this artificial intelligence, McCartney said, though he acknowledged that other uses of artificial intelligence are cause for concern. “It’s a little scary, but it’s exciting, because it’s the future. We’ll have to see where it takes us,” he said.

McCartney spoke about artificial intelligence ahead of an exhibition of his photographs opening to the public later this month at London’s National Portrait Gallery. titled eyes of the storm, the exhibition features portraits taken by McCartney with his own camera, between December 1963 and February 1964, when the Beatles were catapulted to stardom. The pictures taken by McCartney capture numerous intimate moments of the band members, and offer a unique look at the environment, personality and the way the musicians experienced the burgeoning “Beatlemania” phenomenon.