Multimodality
English
Etymology
From [[1](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/multimodal) multimodal] + [[2](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ity) -ity].
Noun
multimodality
The quality or state of being multimodal; the use or combination of multiple modes, forms, channels, or methods.
- In AI, multimodality often refers to systems that can work with more than one kind of input or output, such as text, images, audio, or video.
In AI, the ability to work with multiple kinds of input or output, such as text, images, audio, or video, rather than relying on text alone.
- Multimodality allows a user to give an AI system richer context by combining words with other formats, such as prompting with a product photo, an audio recording, or a video clip.
- For example, a multimodal AI system might create an image from a text prompt, draft an email from product photos, generate a video from a sentence, or build a presentation from an audio recording.
In mathematics and statistics, the presence of multiple modes or maxima in a distribution.