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Agent-based approaches remain far from understanding, but perform substantially better than a single vision-language-model call, suggesting shortcomings in current VLM architectures.
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“Yeah, the agents are still far from understanding, but they are a lot better than just a single call to the VLM, which I think points to real shortcomings right now in that VLM architecture.”56:45Report a misattribution
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