Project Astra stole the show at Google I/O, giving us a glimpse at what our interactions with the world will look like powered by Gemini 1.5 — Google's next-generation AI model. Though It could be some time until a public version of Project Astra trickles down to devices, I had the chance to demo its different abilities while attending Google's annual developer conference.
In short, Project Astra is real-time, camera-based AI that can do anything from identify an object in frame to craft an fictional story about said object to rewrite that story using an obnoxious amount of alliteration. No seriously, when prompted with a plastic apple, it romanticized the toy (presumably nabbed from a children's play set) as "pretty produce positioned perfectly."
