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Business, Spoken

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

May 15, 2024
Google's Astra and OpenAI's Chat GPT are pushing the boundaries of AI, with a focus on processing images and engaging in natural language conversations. The podcast discusses the evolution of multimodal AI models that can understand audio, images, and text, hinting at their potential impacts across various fields and future AI development.
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  • Google's Astra combines audio, images, and text for enhanced user interactions, surpassing traditional text-based AI assistants.
  • Current AI models, focusing on language-centric learning, lack direct interaction with the physical world, highlighting challenges for future development.

Deep dives

Google Introduces Astro as a Multimodal AI Assistant

Google unveils Astro, a new multimodal AI assistant, as a response to OpenAI's chat GPT. Astro integrates audio, images, and text to interact with users through spoken commands and natural language conversations. Unlike text-based models, Astro can identify objects, scenes, and code, showcasing a more advanced and human-like interaction. Google's Astro and OpenAI's chat GPT mark a shift towards more sophisticated generative AI helpers.

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