AI glossary · Generative AI and LLMs
Multimodal AI
Multimodal AI can understand or create more than one type of content, such as text, images, audio and video, in the same conversation.
Also called multimodal model
In more detail
Early chatbots handled text only. Multimodal models can look at a photo, listen to speech, read a chart in a PDF and answer in text, voice or images.
This makes AI more natural to use: you can show a problem instead of describing it.
Example
Photographing a broken bike part and asking a chatbot what it is called and how to replace it.
Related terms
Large language model (LLM)A large language model (LLM) is an AI model trained on vast amounts of text to understand and generate language. It powers chatbots like ChatGPT.Computer visionComputer vision is the field of AI that lets computers understand images and video, such as recognising objects, faces or text in a photo.Speech recognitionSpeech recognition is AI that turns spoken words into text, so you can talk to a device or get a written transcript of audio.Optical character recognition (OCR)Optical character recognition (OCR) is technology that reads text in images or scanned documents and turns it into editable, searchable text.
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