Noob amazed AI handles non-keyboard input; Expert: It's called type-token distinction
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-01
A dialogue about multimodal AI capabilities. One person is surprised that AI can process data beyond keyboard input, while the other calmly explains it's multimodal capability and drops the term "type-token distinction".
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