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Daddy's Car: a song composed with Artificial Intelligence - in the style of the Beatles

Sony CSL (Paris) · 3.3M views · 2016-09-19 · 3:01

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Sony CSL's Daddy's Car is a pop song composed with AI in the style of the Beatles, with lead sheets generated by software from Beatles-style training material. Humans produced, arranged and performed it.

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Cited as an early example of AI-composed music, usually with the caveat that humans did much of the production.

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geoka9 · 2025-06 · Reference

Humans are fallible in a way computers are not. One could argue any creative process is an exercise in fallibility. More interestingly, humans are capable of assessing the results of their "neural misfires" ("hmm, there's something to this"), whereas even if we could make a computer do such mistakes, it wouldn't know its Penny Lane from its Daddy's Car[0], even if it managed to come up with one. [0] [VIDEO]

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blunte · 2019-12 · Reference

Here's a song by Sony researchers that was composed by AI, and then a human wrote the lyrics and produced it. The intent was to create a Beatles sound, and I think they did quite well. [VIDEO] Add some Grover-like text for the lyrics ( [LINK] ), and you're most of the way there. Then use a deepfake singer ( [LINK] ), and you're most of the way to done. Depending on the audience, particularly their level of attention or focus on the music, you can probably get away with playing a completely un-human pop song that people will like. [LINK] I find the possibilities here very interesting, but I also greatly fear that this will become the norm the same way that nearly every modern song uses autotune.

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weatherlight · 2019-09 · Reference

I'm going to have to disagree with you.heres a track where an AI wrote the lyrics and music (trained on Beatle compositions.) Humans played and composed it (adding the emotional impetus.) [VIDEO]

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