This would defeat the AGI narrative/belief that so many building these models have

Would it? AGI was always about the efficiency gains of versatility, not strictly all forms of efficiency

	▲	cyanydeez 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AGI is whateve rmakes the VC open their wallet.

scld 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

On the otherhand, your own brain probably doesn't use your eyes to hear.

vasilvv 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Counterintuitively, seeing things can alter the perception of individual sounds you're hearing:

nvme0n1p1 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You don't think reading lips helps you understand people?

That's still not hearing.

Hearing has volume, direction, pitch, it's spacial processing etc

	▲	kennywinker 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Laurel / yanny has entered the chat. Hearing is also psycho, not just acoustic.

You could if you do lip reading