Google I/O, the tech giant's annual developer conference, took place this past week, and unsurprisingly it was another year in which AI figured highly on the agenda. The company demoed some neat AI-powered tricks, and one in particular got a lot of attention: Project Astra.
Project Astra is Google's vision for a universal AI assistant that will accompany our every moment. You can have conversations with it as you go about your life, asking it everything you want to know like an inquisitive kid pestering a parent."What's this called?""What does this do?" And it can help you find your lost spectacles. At least that's the headline. It sounds like a dream come true for anyone who's constantly misplacing their glasses.
Turning a neat research project into a useful, scalable tool is the kind of challenge Google's struggled with many times. Cost and privacy and security concerns are all likely to be issues with any potential Astra AI glasses.Daily design news, reviews, how-tos and more, as picked by the editors.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors
Meanwhile, Google is advancing with the implementation of AI tools in other products, including its search engine. It's rolling out AI summaries in search results in the US, and this could also be a challenge for the company since it risks cannibalising part of its own business as well as potentially damaging the sustainability of the content that, until now, has been the whole point of its existence: websites.
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