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' cameras, and converse about them in natural language. It identified a computer speaker and answered questions about its components, recognized a London neighborhood from the view out of an office window, read and analyzed code from a computer screen, composed a limerick about some pencils, and recalled where a person had left a pair of glasses. That vision for the future of AI is strikingly similar to one showcased by OpenAI on Monday. OpenAI revealed a new...
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