Project Astra: Exploring a Universal AI Assistant with Greg Wayne

In our final episode for the year, 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 Project Astra Decoding Google Gemini with Jeff Dean Gaming, Goats & General Intelligence with Frederic Besse 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 Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Project Astra: Exploring a Universal AI Assistant with Greg Wayne is an episode from DeepMind: The Podcast by Google DeepMind.

This episode is 00:46:07 long.

This episode was published on Dec 20, 2024.

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