Google Reveals Project Astra: AI Assistant Of The Future
On May 14, Google held its annual developer conference Google I/O. The head of the corporation, Sundar Pichai, and other company representatives, among other things, spoke about the new capabilities of Gemini on Android, announced AI functions in various products, and also showed a prototype of the Project Astra AI assistant.
Along with this, Google published a short video that demonstrates some of the capabilities of the early version of Project Astra. One employee at Google’s London office activates the AI assistant and asks it to tell it when it “sees” something that can make sounds. After that, she begins to rotate the smartphone and when a speaker standing on the table hits the camera lens, the algorithm reports this. Next, she asks to describe the colored crayons in the glass on the table, to which the algorithm replies that with their help you can create “colorful creations.” Next, the phone’s camera is directed to the part of the monitor on which the program code is displayed at that time. The girl asks the AI algorithm what exactly this part of the code is responsible for and Project Astra almost instantly gives the correct answer. Next, the AI assistant determined the location of the Google office based on the landscape “seen” from the window and performed a number of other tasks. All this happened virtually online and looked very impressive.
It is expected that in the future Project Astra will appear not only in smartphones, but also in smart glasses equipped with a camera. The exact timing of its launch to the masses has not been announced.
