Project Astra: exploring a universal AI assistant | Greg Wayne

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In this episode we explore Project Astra, a research prototype exploring future capabilities of a universal AI assistant that can understand the world around you. Host Hannah Fry is joined by Greg Wayne, Director in Research at Google DeepMind. They discuss the inspiration behind the research prototype, its current strengths and limitations, as well as potential future use cases. Hannah even gets the chance to put Project Astra's multilingual skills to the test. Further reading / listening: Gemini 2.0: https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini Project Astra: https://deepmind.google/technologies/project-astra/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH74gNeryhQ https://youtu.be/64pndvbbokA?si=aWCil9lMosadDsSc Timecodes 00:00 Intro to Project Astra 03:00 Hannah demo 07:00 Hardware and what's under the hood 16:56 Languages 23:00 Inspiration for Project Astra 33:55 Latency and memory 46:00 What's next 47:00 Hannah's thoughts Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry Series Producer: Dan Hardoon Editor: Rami Tzabar, TellTale Studios Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif Music composition: Eleni Shaw Camera Director and Video Editor: Bernardo Resende Audio Engineer: Perry Rogantin Video Studio Production: Nicholas Duke Video Editor: Bilal Merhi Video Production Design: James Barton Visual Identity and Design: Eleanor Tomlinson Commissioned by Google DeepMind Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/