I got a demo of Google’s Project Astra at I/O 2024, and here are the takeaways

As I waited for my turn to enter the demo zone to experience Project Astra, Google’s voice-operated AI assistant, at the company’s annual developer conference, I saw Google co-founder Sergey Brin enter the booth, and exit exactly 10 minutes. Brin came twice to check out the demo, and I wondered and asked myself what was going on in his mind as he was getting the demo of Project Astra, a multimodal AI agent designed to help you in everyday life.