This recording with Greg Wayne is from Vision Weekend UK 2026, held in London in June 2026. View the recording along with the slides on our YouTube channel.
Greg Wayne is Director of Research at Google DeepMind, where he leads Project Astra, Google's research prototype for a universal AI assistant. His research combines neuroscience with AI systems design, focusing on memory, contextual grounding, and how agents can reason over time.
In this talk, Greg examines what it would take to build AI assistants that are truly situated: embedded in a physical and temporal context, capable of maintaining persistent memory, and able to act in the world rather than simply respond to queries. He draws on his work at DeepMind to outline the design challenges and the scientific questions that remain open.
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