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Google's Project Astra uses your phone's camera and AI to find noise makers, misplaced items and more.

Google's Project Astra uses your phone's camera to let AI find noise makers, misplaced items and more.

The company couldn't even wait till its keynote today to tease Project Astra, posting a video to its social media of a camera-based AI app yesterday. At its keynote today, though, Google's DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shared that his team has "always wanted to develop universal AI agents that can be helpful in everyday life." Hassabis noted in a blog post that "While we’ve made incredible progress developing AI systems that can understand multimodal information, getting response time down to something conversational is a difficult engineering challenge."

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