Google's new AI agent Astra can book appointments and handle tasks on your behalf. Jeff Hassemer says we're entering the agentic search era as of September 3rd, where AI will arrange local services like plumbers instead of you doing it manually.
Yesterday, ChatGPT announced Google announced Astra. Astra essentially will do things like book appointments for you, find information for you, as at the same time that it's actually doing anything that you can do on your computer now can be done by AI. That's actually happening in Google Spark as well. It's just not as widely done. And I've seen problems with Google Spark. But this steps us as of September 3rd into the agentic search area where we're going to start to see people use AI more and more for booking things like plumbers and local needs and pieces of appointments for them to do things
