Speaker 1: 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 a lot of things, and I'm here at Google io to demo it. Try walking it yourself for the first time and see everything it can do. Let's try it. Headset is on. It's very noisy here so you can hear me clearly. There are several different modes here. There's Storyteller, Pictionary, Alliteration, and Freeform.Experiment with Gemini storytelling [00:00:30] literal ability. The shelves here have a variety of objects to play with, as well as some different pictures. And as you can see as I speak, it actually transcribes everything I said. Okay, this is my dog. My dog is called Monty. And this is a cat. This is a cat named Cat Harry. Speaker 2: Second portal. This season, it became clear that [00:01:00] The dazed face, forever trapped in summer, tilts its head and harbors curiosity about eternity. B narrowed his eyes, somewhat warmly, overwhelmed by this new challenge, or this new territory, that he saw. Speaker 1: So you made up this whole story about this dog and this cat. [00:01:30] So let's delete Monty and say Monty is gone. So where did Monty go? Speaker 2: There's nothing in the photo field. Monty wanders on the summer breeze to explore trains and faraway places.Speaker 1: It's a good life. Now, this is the Storyteller demo. Now, let's try Pictionary. This is another demo. [00:02:00] You can see my terrible drawing skills, so let's draw it. Oh, what did you say, Gemini? Speaker 2: What did you say? Sure. your drawing skills. I'm that bad. are you ready? Speaker 1: I'm ready. Understood. So when you hear it and I interrupt Gemini talking, Gemini pauses and then responds and responds to me. That was so cool. It's like talking to a real person. Okay, let's draw. Oh my god. Please put me on the spot. Speaker 2: [00:02:30] It's great to see the system react like that. Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Speaker 2: Is that a palm tree? Speaker 1: How did you guess? You guessed it was a palm tree, which is actually pretty good. I mean, even though I'm a terrible drawer and the trunk was red, that's exactly what I was going for. Okay. That's very nice. I like that. Let's try one more thing right away. Let's try freeform. Let's just go with the flow. Okay. What is [00:03:00] this? What is this? Speaker 2: It looks like a brown blob. Maybe a baguette? Speaker 1: I think it's a baguette. If you were to make a recipe using this, this, this, and maybe this, what would you suggest? Speaker 2: Something like an apple, Speaker 1: Something sweet.Speaker 2: Anything? [00:03:30] Perhaps you can do worse? Would you like to make some suggestions? Speaker 1: Yes. Without further ado, Speaker 2: You can make a classic bread bag and add some unique flavor to it. not bad. It's easy and delicious to bake by mixing butter and sugar. Speaker 1: Okay, thank you Gemini. This is the first introduction to Project Astra. Being able to have conversations like this feels really natural. [00:04:00] Run this and do all these different tasks. I think there are many expectations for future developments. This is really natural, wild, and the more I think about it, the more shocking it seems to me than a quick demo here. Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Thank you for visiting Cnet. Check out all the Google IO content today.
