Published on 16/11/2024 21:17
Updated on 16/11/2024 21:17
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The Beatles are nominated for a Grammy Award with the song “Now and Then”. Exhumed from the archives, it was finalized using artificial intelligence.
Now and Then is a love ballad carried by the voice of John Lennon, who died in 1980. The title was created thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). Nominated twice for the Grammy Awards, he finds himself alongside artists like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. This openness to AI technology divides in London (United Kingdom). “Music takes a scary path. It’s the dead who wake up to make new music, instead of celebrating current musicians.”deplores a passerby in particular.
The original model dates from 1977. The audio cassette remained unusable for a long time, to the great dismay of the group. The fans’ emotion at hearing this new song in 2024 is now followed by the fear of seeing artificial intelligence disrupt the landscape of musical creation. “Tomorrow, we can even imagine music completely interpreted and designed by AI”comments Nicolas Gaudemet, director of Artificial Intelligence at Onepoint.
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