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How Paul McCartney Is Using AI to Finish What He Calls “The Last Beatles Song” · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: If you talk to some people in the entertainment industry,
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Speaker 2: AI tech will eventually ruin music, that's what some say,
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Speaker 2: but at least for now, it's allowing the most celebrated
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Speaker 2: band in rock history to release one more song. Paul
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Speaker 2: McCartney's confirmed using AI to lift John Lennon's vocals off
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Speaker 2: a low quality and previously unusable demo when he describes
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Speaker 2: to the BBC as a rope ye little bit of cassette,
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Speaker 2: adding it will be the last Beatles record. We were
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Speaker 2: able to take John's voice and get it pure with
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Speaker 2: this AI. A lot of AI songs you might have
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Speaker 2: heard are basically computer generated impersonations of famous artists, but
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Speaker 2: this is different. Paul is using John's actual vocals, and
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Speaker 2: computers will just clean up the quality and remove any
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Speaker 2: musical instrumentation. There's no word on what the song is,
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Speaker 2: but many fans think it's Now and Then, which John
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Speaker 2: recorded a demo of in nineteen seventy eight. It was
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Speaker 2: previously too damage to use.
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