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Text is a more powerful output modality for a model than images, because text supports many downstream tasks
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- Chip Huyen Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems
Text is a much more powerful mode for model outputs. A model that can generate images can only be used for image generation, whereas a model that can generate text can be used for many tasks: summarization, translation, reasoning, question answering, etc.
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↗Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)huyenchip.com
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