Think The Beatles

Imagine a Brand New Beatles Album

Thought Experiment — One day soon, artificial intelligence will take the Beatles Challenge, relax its mind, and float downstream. The only question is whether you’ll love or hate what it comes up with.

Bryce Zabel
Point of Contact
Published in
9 min readNov 1, 2021

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The Realm of the Possible

It’s conceivable that A.I., artificial technology, could be asked to create new Beatles music in the future. As a thought experiment, that’s wonderful enough to contemplate on its own. It might also be seen some day soon as a proof-of-concept for an emerging A.I. intelligence.

Imagine a cutting edge A.I., known as “Arti,” and how this new intelligence tries to fix a longing humans have had for many decades now — to hear a new Beatles LP.

Should we let that be? How could it even happen?

Here, presented as a short story rather than a traditional article, is a mind-provoking narrative about the creation of a brand new album of Beatles music, the best that the band had ever made since the 1970 break-up.

This is only a thought experiment at this point. It has not happened… yet…

The Beatles Challenge

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Bryce Zabel
Point of Contact

Writer/producer in features & TV. Creator, five primetime series. Ex: TV Academy CEO; CNN reporter; USC professor. Author of books about the Beatles, JFK, UFOs.