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Cognitive Revolution · June 15, 2025 · 70m

Multimodal AI: Seeing, Hearing, Understanding

Examination of how multimodal AI models that process text, images, audio, and video simultaneously are creating capabilities that single-modality models cannot match.

Canon

Real environments are multimodal — sights, sounds, text, context all together. AI models that process multiple modalities simultaneously are better environment models because reality is multimodal.
Multimodal AI can detect falsehood by checking consistency across modalities. A deepfake video may fool visual analysis alone but fail when audio-visual synchronization is checked.