Topic: Paul McCartney using AI to create "final" Beatles track

[Simon]

While many artists have openly shown their disdain towards the role of artificial intelligence in the music industry, with Nick Cave and Sting both recently airing their disgust over the quickly-advancing technology, Paul McCartney has revealed that he recently used AI to create the "final" Beatles song.

In conversation with BBC Radio 4's Today, the former Beatle explains how he sourced the technology to "extricate" John Lennon's voice from an old demo so that he could use it to complete an already-written piece of music.

Of the track, which is has not yet been officially revealed, but is rumoured to be the unheard 1978 John Lennon song Now And Then, McCartney says: "We just finished it up and it'll be released this year."

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[Clive]

It doesn’t bother me at all because we have to go with the flow. It’s progress whether we like it or not.