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Astra Is Google's ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT

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Google's new voice-operated AI assistant, called Astra, can make sense of what your phone's camera sees. It was announced one day after OpenAI revealed a similar vision for ChatGPT.

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.

Pulkit Agrawal, an assistant professor at MIT who works on AI and robotics, says Google's and OpenAI’s latest demos are impressive and show how rapidly multimodal AI models have advanced. OpenAI launched GPT-4V, a system capable of parsing images in September 2023. He was impressed that Gemini is able to make sense of live video—for example, correctly interpreting changes made to a diagram on a whiteboard in real time. OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT appears capable of the same.

 

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