Project Astra

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  Google calls it Project Astra, and it’s a real-time, multimodal AI assistant that can see the world, knows what things are and where you left them, and can answer questions or help you do almost anything.

  In an incredibly impressive demo video that Hassabis swears is not faked or doctored in any way, an Astra user in Google’s London office asks the system to identify a part of a speaker, find their missing glasses, review code, and more.

  When Gemini 1.5 Pro, the latest version of Google’s mainstream large language model, was ready, Hassabis says he knew the underlying tech was good enough for something like Astra to begin to work well.

  A lot of this is enabled by Gemini’s large context window, which means it can access a huge amount of information at a time, and Hassabis says it’s crucial to making it feel normal and natural to interact with your assistant.

  One thing Google is focused on right now is trip planning — it built a new tool for using Gemini to build an itinerary for your vacation that you can then edit in tandem with the assistant.

  Hassabis says he’s bullish on phones and glasses as key devices for these agents but also says “there is probably room for some exciting form factors.” Astra is still in an early prototype phase and only represents one way you might want to interact with a system like Gemini.

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