AI helped “extract” John Lennon’s voice from an old demo tape so The Beatles released their latest song

The legendary group The Beatles promises to release their new and final song this year. And this

would not have happened without artificial intelligence.

What does it mean

One of the band's founders, Paul McCartneyMcCartney told Radio 4 that it was an old song that the late John Lennon recorded decades ago. This is most likely a 1978 Lennon composition called Now and Then. It was one of several songs on the "For Paul" cassette tapes that Lennon recorded shortly before his death in 1980 and which were later given to McCartney by Lennon's widow Yoko Ono.

A demo version of the song was recorded on a boombox in Lennon's New York apartment, accompanied by a piano. The Beatles wanted to release it earlier, but the quality of the recording made it impossible to do so.

Now the musicians used artificialan intelligence that was able to “extract” John Lennon’s voice and “separate” it from the sounds of the piano and extraneous noise. As a result, the composition will be released this year.