Hands-on with Google’s Project Astra, the AI that knows where you left your keys

Before I first tried Google’s Project Astra – three times at Google I/O 2024 – a Google rep asked me not to be adversarial. I’d been asking questions about Astra’s last training date and how Google might react to a search warrant for Astra’s location data (more later, promise). But you can’t tell me, “don’t be adversarial” with an AI. As a writer and editor — a creator — AI IS the adversary … maybe. We don’t know yet,

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