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Sir Paul McCartney has used AI to complete a Beatles song that was never finished. limits of such technology?

Using machine learning Sir Paul said they managed to “lift” the late John Lennon’s voice and get the piece of work completed. By extracting elements of his voice from a “ropey little bit of a cassette”, the 1978 song entitled “Now and Then” will hopefully be released later this year. “We had John’s voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine, ‘That’s the voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar’. This was not a “hard days night” and was certainly faster than “eight days a week”, it will be interesting to hear the finished result and we may be “glad all over” that they did not “let it be”.

Link here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65881813