I happened to catch some of The Grammy Awards Last night and while pop, rap and country were definitely the focus, it was the best category of rock performance that made my attention most. The award went to the Beatles for their song “occasionally”“This is a confusing sentence in 2025. You could be aware that the Beatles were mainly operated on in the 1960s, not in the 2020s, and since only half of the group still lives and a grammy for a new song Wins, could sound a bit strange.
Despite it, The song is new– at least, as new as a Beatles song can be. The route fell towards the end of 2023 and is and is Built from a demo that John Lennon was recorded Shortly before his death. In the 1990s, the living three Beatles members (Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison) tried to end the song, but never completed because the original audio quality was too poor. However, modern technology made it possible to create the product you heard today.
I love the Beatles, but the song itself is not really what I paid attention to. (I didn’t really think about it until Sunday.) Instead, a announcer made it clear that the song was produced with AI, a statement that caused everything from an eye roll to a severe sigh from this tech editor in 2025. Music -generated music is a reality today. While there are some convincing results from these tools with AI-generated perpetrators, there are some convincing results There are many explanations that you have to pay attention to. The idea that the Beatles would bring out a song with a certain degree of AI generation did not suit me well, and I bet many others out there.
However, it is important to consider the difference between AI-generated and AI-produced AI producers. They sound the same, but they are not. I would like to be clear: “Now, then” is not a song of AI-generated song: Nobody taps AI to reproduce John Lennon’s voice to make another award-winning song.
Not The Type of AI
AI not only means the artificially generated content that we are all used to. While it feels like Ai is taking over our life The introduction of Chatgpt at the end of 2022Companies have embedded the technology in our products and services much longer.
AI may be a bit of a wrong name. In this context, machine learning is a little more precise. Machine learning is very easy if a program can adapt and grow based on the data – similar to our work in our mind. You feed the program training data and adapt your assumptions and expenses accordingly. While the actual process is much more complicated than this, machine learning strengthens programs to do some great things.
One of these things is the separation of Audio track: part of the reason why the project “now, then” was stopped, it was that they could not really mix the song because Lennon’s original recording was so rough. However, use an audio editing tool with machine learningThe producers were able to separate Lennons vocals from the piano. Neither the piano nor the vocals were created with AI. Sobhere was able to break these tracks apart, so that the producers could build on them together with the two living Beatles in order to absorb, mix and send a finished song. McCartney posted so much on X in summer before publishing the song:
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For many reasons I am glad that this “Ai Beatles Song” John Lennon did not artificially return. It is really cute to have a song that Lennon begins decades ago, which is correctly finished by his former bandmates, with Lennon’s son who accepts the award In the name of the band.
The music video, on the other hand, definitely presses a little further and compares the archive material of the late Beatles members John Lennon and George Harrison alongside the current film material from McCartney and rigid. (It was produced by Peter Jackson, who both produced from time to time, as well as from the 2021 Beatles -Documentary Return.) Nevertheless, it is more strange than anything and is certainly not a product that represents the reality-in contrast to the majority of the content that they met in the wild in the wild.
