Silicon Republic May 10, 2023
Learning across a range of modalities, Meta’s open-source ImageBind aims to ‘open the floodgates’ to researchers developing new advanced AI systems.
Meta is open sourcing a new AI model that can combine different data points to process information which the company says is akin to how humans perceive the world.
ImageBind, revealed in a research paper yesterday (9 May) and described on Meta’s blog, learns across the six modalities of text, audio, visual, movement, thermal and depth data.
When combined with appropriate hardware, Meta believes the ImageBind AI model could bring machines “one step closer to humans’ ability to learn simultaneously, holistically and directly from many different forms of information – without the need for explicit supervision”.
“ImageBind equips machines...