This is the first time a song of this type has won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance, and the Beatles‘ AI-assisted song “Now and Then” did so on Sunday night.
No, Paul McCartney did not build a spooky LennonGPT bot using artificial intelligence. Instead, he cleaned up a poor piano demo from his late bandmate that was decades old using noise reduction technologies. In order to eliminate undesired background noise and produce a crisper voice, video call services like Zoom, FaceTime, and Google Meet employ a similar approach.
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In the 1990s, the remaining Beatles attempted to clean up Lennon’s demo, but the technology at the time was unable to fully extract his muffled vocals. They went back to “Now and Then” in 2022 after discovering that the directors of the archival Beatles documentary “Get Back” were employing novel sonic isolation techniques to render badly recorded demos palatable.
SOURCE: TECH CRUNCH
