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But multimodality is an important thing — it’s a basic thing you need (to build agents.) If you imagine robotics, or even just digital agents, and understanding user interfaces and how to interact with things. You have to parse the environment you’re in, multimodally, before you can act in the world in a useful manner. So you can think of it as a prerequisite to the planning and interacting stage.
Google Unveils Gemini
Casey Newton
For example, when a community loses its memory, its members no longer know one another. How can they know one another if they have forgotten or have never learned one another’s stories? If they do not know one another’s stories, how can they know whether or not to trust one another? People who do not trust one another do not help one another, and moreover they fear one another. And this is our predicament now. Because of a general distrust and suspicion, we not only lose one another’s help and companionship, but we are all now living in jeopardy of being sued.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Everything alive is just outside their field of view.”
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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