Text-only AGI skeptics: all modalities are needed for general intelligence
Angaisb_ · x · 2026-10-18
Researcher Angaisb argues that people who care only about text and ignore other modalities are on the wrong track — AGI requires all modalities (vision, audio, etc.), pushing back on language-model-centric paths to general intelligence.
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