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arXiv Paper Asks Where Language Belongs in Multimodal Models
A new arXiv paper examines the role of language in multimodal systems, noting that language models use text as input, output, and an increasingly internal representation. The author argues that whether language should hold all of these positions depends on what language does to the system that relies on it, drawing on evidence from human perception and cognition.