Digital Humanities: Week 2 Reflection
AI and Art Dead men tell no tales, but they do sing songs after 43 years of their passing, or so I thought when I received a notification on November 2, 2023, from Spotify announcing that The Beatles had released a new song. The Beatles officially broke up after 1974, and two of the four members passed away in the years that followed. Yes, there were songs and recordings that came out well into the '90s and early 2000s, but it was still a surprise to the world to get a new Beatles song in 2023. Was it a prank? A fluke? If not, then what sorcery was this? And that is when Artificial Intelligence and 'Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson come into the picture. In a nutshell, Peter Jackson, with the help of machine learning and AI, was able to retrieve and isolate John Lennon’s voice from an old cassette. They then proceeded to retrieve George’s old guitar riffs in the vault and recorded McCartney and Ringo in the studio, successfully creating a song with two living Bea...
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