ChatGPT is not yet two years old, but the idea of communicating with artificial intelligence by typing into a box is already starting to seem quaint.
At Google’s I/O developer conference today, Demis Hassabis, the executive leading the company’s effort to reestablish leadership in AI, introduced a “next-generation AI assistant” called Astra. A videoclip showed it running as an app on a smartphone and also a prototype pair of smart glasses. The new concept delivers on a promise Hassabis made about Gemini’s potential when the model was first introduced last December.
In response to spoken commands, Astra was able to make sense of objects and scenes as viewed through the devices’
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