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Astra Is Google's ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT
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.
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. Hassabis said in an interview ahead of today’s event that he thinks text-only chatbots will prove to be just a “transitory stage” on the march toward far more sophisticated—and hopefully useful—AI helpers. “A multimodal universal agent assistant is on the sort of track to artificial general intelligence,” Hassabis said in reference to a hoped-for but largely undefined future point where machines can do anything and everything that a human mind can.
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