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The Beatles' AI-assisted song's Grammy nomination could 'push the limit' on interest in the technology
Their final song was mixed with John Lennon's voice. The Beatles' return to the Grammys has come with an assist from artificial intelligence. "Now and Then" is nominated for record of the year and best rock performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards, making it the first nominated song ever to use AI in its production. The song utilized AI to clean up old demo recordings of John Lennon singing and playing piano, recorded in the late 1970s, as well as a guitar track from George Harrison, recorded six years before his death in 2001. "To me, this is a cool example of how AI can function in our current environment," Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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2025 Grammy nominees Taylor Swift, Beatles go head-to-head for record of the year
TikTok user and travel agent Taylor Moore shared details of her plane ride next to Taylor Swift's dad, including his proud papa moments and approval of Travis Kelce. The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are facing off at the 2025 Grammy Awards. On Friday, the Recording Academy released its full list of Grammy nominations, and the Beatles earned their first nod since 1997 for their latest song, "Now and Then." The Fab Four also earned a nomination for the same song in the best rock performance category. The Beatles' last new song, the AI-assisted "Now and Then," was released in 2023.
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'AGT' judge Simon Cowell reveals he is 'not a fan' of AI
The "America's Got Talent" judge told Fox News Digital why he doesn't like AI technology in songwriting. Simon Cowell has some judgment on the use of artificial intelligence in music. "I personally am not a fan of it," Cowell told Fox News Digital. He continued, explaining why artists like Queen, David Bowie and Elton John have a lasting, authentic impact, by noting that "their songs, I think, are as good today as they were then. So, anything which is faking it is for me a bit of a problem," he said.
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AI-generated music won't win a Grammy anytime soon
It looks like Fake Drake won't be taking home a Grammy. Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said this week that although the organization will consider music with limited AI-generated voices or instrumentation for award recognition, it will only honor songs written and performed "mostly by a human." "At this point, we are going to allow AI music and content to be submitted, but the Grammys will only be allowed to go to human creators who have contributed creatively in the appropriate categories," Mason said in an interview with Grammy.com. "If there's an AI voice singing the song or AI instrumentation, we'll consider it. But in a songwriting-based category, it has to have been written mostly by a human. Same goes for performance categories – only a human performer can be considered for a Grammy. If AI did the songwriting or created the music, that's a different consideration. But the Grammy will go to human creators at this point."
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The Grammys go high-tech with IBM and artificial intelligence
Along with Versace and Jean Paul Gaultier, artificial intelligence and Natural Language Processing will be important accessories on the 62nd Annual Grammys' red carpet. IBM will enhance the red carpet livestream with Grammy Insights with Watson this Sunday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The team at IBM took over 18 million documents and data sources on this year's Grammy nominees and distilled them down to the most interesting nuggets about each of the artists to create a modern day version of the 90s' "Pop Up Video." When an artist is on the red carpet, that's when the artificial intelligence (AI) will kick in. This includes Lizzo, who has eight nominations, Lil Nas X with six nominations, and Billie Eilish with nominations in the top four categories, according to CBS News.
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The Grammys go high-tech with IBM and artificial intelligence
Along with Versace and Jean Paul Gaultier, artificial intelligence and Natural Language Processing will be important accessories on the 62nd Annual Grammys' red carpet. IBM will enhance the red carpet livestream with Grammy Insights with Watson this Sunday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The team at IBM took over 18 million documents and data sources on this year's Grammy nominees and distilled them down to the most interesting nuggets about each of the artists to create a modern day version of the 90s' "Pop Up Video." When a musician is on the red carpet, that's when the artificial intelligence (AI) will kick in. Grammy Insights with Watson will use Watson Discovery, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech to Text technologies to analyze the red carpet audio and video in real time to identify which artist is on the red carpet and the nature of the interview between the artist and the host.
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The Grammys go high-tech with IBM and artificial intelligence
Along with Versace and Jean Paul Gaultier, artificial intelligence and Natural Language Processing will be important accessories on the 62nd Annual Grammys' red carpet. IBM will enhance the red carpet livestream with Grammy Insights with Watson this Sunday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The team at IBM took over 18 million documents and data sources on this year's Grammy nominees and distilled them down to the most interesting nuggets about each of the artists to create a modern day version of the 90s' "Pop Up Video." When an artist is on the red carpet, that's when the artificial intelligence (AI) will kick in. This includes Lizzo, who has eight nominations, Lil Nas X with six nominations, and Billie Eilish with nominations in the top four categories, according to CBS News.
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IBM's Watson Will Be Judging the Red Carpet at the 2018 Grammys
This weekend's 60th Annual Grammy Awards will feature big names like Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Watson. The latter is IBM's famous artificial intelligence platform, which the Grammys are enlisting to curate the videos and photos being released to music fans following along with this year's awards show on social media in real time. IBM is partnering with Grammys organizer the Recording Academy to provide Watson's AI services to populate the event's social media feeds with automatically-generated content during the Grammy Awards ceremony, which airs this Sunday, Jan. 28, on CBS. IBM's Watson will get to work before the ceremony even starts, analyzing and sorting "hours of video and close to 125,000 photographs" taken during the Grammys' hours-long red carpet show ahead of Sunday's event, IBM said in its announcement. The platform will use features such as facial recognition, even analyzing stars' "facial emotion," to pick out the best images and videos to post for fans online.
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We Asked the Recording Academy's Grammy Bot All Your Biggest Grammy Questions!
The brightest stars in the music world are shining at the Grammy Awards, as Music's Biggest Night rolls on. To get the inside scoop on this year's ceremony, Slate talked to the ultimate insider: the Recording Academy Bot that appears in a popup window whenever you visit Grammy.com. Most people wait all year for the Grammys, but for the Recording Academy Bot--programmed with no concept of linear time--it's always the Grammys. It knows no other reality! We asked the bot about red carpet fashion, what to look for at this year's awards, and--sorry, Recording Academy!--why the ceremony always takes so long.
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IBM is sending Watson to the Grammys
After winning Jeopardy and designing cancer-treatment plans, IBM Watson is now strutting off to the red carpet of the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. The tech giant's versatile AI system will be curating and distributing award-show content and images of everyone's favorite music stars in real time, straight from the red carpet to people's social media feeds. IBM and the Recording Academy announced their partnership to use the Watson Media Suite at the Grammys today. Want to quickly see who has the coolest looks on the red carpet? Want to gain AI-generated insights into the "emotional tone" of songs by this year's nominees?
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