Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I Tried Google’s Project Astra”.
One of the biggest announcements at Google IO this year was Project Astra. This is Google’s vision of a multimodal assistant that can do so many different things and I’m here on the ground at Google IO, to give you a demo, walk through it myself for the very first time and see everything that it can do. Let’S try it headset on it’s very loud in here, so this is so. It can hear me properly. I’Ve got a couple of different modes up here: we’ve got Storyteller, Pictionary, alliteration and free form, I’m going to experiment with Gemini’s store storytelling abilities, as it says, and I’ve got a whole range of different objects that I can play with all on the Shelf here as Well, as a couple of different photos and as you can see, as I’m talking, it’s actually transcribing everything that I say all right.
This is my dog. My dog is called Monty and this is a cat. This is a cat called Harry, a second portal. This time will be face: gazing, weally from L mon forever trapped in his summer field, tilted curiosity at the Eternal Bas n his eyes, a lowow in his would this new challenge his to this new territory. So it’s just made up a whole story about these two dog, this dog and this cat hat okay.
So I’m going to remove Monty and say Monty’s gone away now um. Where did Monty go the field in the photograph stands empty, Monty, having wandered off to explore beyond the frame, perhaps chasing butterflies or dist on the Summer. Breeze sounds like a pretty good life.
Okay, that’s the Storyteller demo, all right! Let’S try Pictionary! Now! This is another demo. You get to see my terrible drawing skills. So, let’s draw oh, what did you say Gemini, I said I’m sure you’re growing feel aren’t that bad. Are you ready I’m ready? Okay, so as you could hear that I could interrupt Gemini and it would pause and then respond and pick up to me, that was pretty cool.
It’S almost like almost like I’m talking with a real person. Okay, let’s draw oh, my goodness, um put me on the spot here. Yeah, it’s neat to see the system respond. That way. Isn’T it it is pretty cool. Is it a palm tree? How did you guess that’s actually pretty good that it guessed. It was a palm tree, I mean I’m a terrible drawer and that’s exactly what I was going for, even though the the trunk is red. Okay, that’s pretty nice! I like that.
Let’S try it one more quickly. Let’S try free form, let’s just go with the flow. Okay, gimini: what what? What is this? What is this that looks like a loaf of brown? Is it perhaps a bagette? I think it is a baguette.
If I was going to make a recipe with that and this and this and maybe these what would you suggest something sweet? Perhaps you could make a bed puding. Would you like some suggestions? Yes, just quickly, you can make a classic bread pudding with the bagette and ab unique flavor, not keep the toss it with flour and sugar and B it for a simple and delicious to okay, thanks Gemini. So that’s your first look at project Astra.
It’S felt really really natural to be able to converse with like this and do all of these different tasks. Uh. I see a lot of Promise in where this is going. This was really kind of natural wild and I feel like it.
It’S going to blow my mind even more the more I think about it, rather than just doing a quick demo for you here, yeah, I’m excited to see where this goes. Thanks for watching CA, make sure to check out full Google IO coverage right now. .