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From the Editor: Bridging the Gap Between Language and Vision in AI Systems

Vision and language are two of the fundamental pillars of human cognition. Since we are babies, vision and language are intrinsically related as we try to describe objects or create visual representation of a verbal description. Visual representations influence our linguistic skills and language is the fundamental construct used to describe visual images. From that perspective, it is hard to differentiate the influence that vision and language have in human learning. In the case of artificial intelligence(AI) language and vision have evolved as independent schools in the deep learning space and researchers are starting to think about how to bridge that gap.

Today, its nearly impossible for a language model to reuse knowledge from a vision model and viceversa. However, recent breakthroughs in language learning such as Transformers are starting to show promises in the image analysis field. Just this week, OpenAI published a paper unveiling a language model that was sucessfully trained using pixels sequences…