Meet the Beatles... Again

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4.9 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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We've done a number of shows about the danger of AI -- mostly 'hard,' or self-aware AI. However, like fire, Artificial Intelligence, makes a terrible master but a useful servant. Case in point: a recently-discovered, barely-audible song that John Lennon recorded directly into a hand-held cassette player before his death in 1980 has been processed by an artificial intelligence algorithm that was 'trained' to replicate Lennon's voice, turning a barely-audible mess into a studio-quality track. Now, 23 years after their last group recording, The Beatles are about to release a new song! Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	artificial intelligence can get you fired, but it can also bring back the Beatles.
0:04.9	Wow.
0:05.6	Hey, everybody.
0:06.1	I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, and this is Right Angle, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.
0:10.6	And gentlemen, I've had such a flurry of AI stories just in the last couple of days come across my desk that I had to talk about a couple of them.
0:18.6	One, I wrote about today for PJ Media,
0:21.3	which is there is going to be one final Beatles song,
0:25.9	bringing the Fab Four back together,
0:27.4	even though John Lennon was murdered in 1980,
0:30.9	and George Harrison passed away several years ago
0:34.3	due to cancer, I believe.
0:36.4	It's been 10 years, a dozen years, I think.
0:38.5	Anyway, there is an old John Lennon recording, a demo tape that he produced in his own apartment back in 178.
0:45.8	The song is called, oh, where did I put it?
0:48.7	Now and then.
0:50.2	And the lyric is unfinished.
0:53.5	He recorded it under some of the worst possible conditions.
0:56.7	It's just him on a piano in his apartment.
0:59.2	And get this, he's recording it directly into a boom box.
1:02.8	Remember the giant tape decks with a little tiny microphone in there.
1:06.1	And that's what he recorded into.
1:08.9	When the surviving Beatles, the three surviving Beatles, got together in
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