We keep calling AI intelligent. But it has never seen a human face. Over the past two years, artificial intelligence has undergone a meteoric rise. We’ve watched it master the Bar Exam, write sophisticated code in seconds, and translate ancient dialects with startling precision. By all accounts, AI is becoming "smarter" than us. But there is a fundamental, glaring flaw in the current AI revolution: Almost every AI you interact with is legally blind. The Text-Only Delusion We are currently living in the era of "Text-Only Intelligence." You type a prompt into a box, and a machine generates a response based on the statistical probability of the next word. It is a world of pure syntax, devoid of the very things that make human communication meaningful. In the real world, humans don't just "exchange data." We communicate through a complex, silent language of: Micro-reactions that betray our true feelings. Tonal shifts that turn a statement into a questio...
TwitPic is generating $1.5 to $2 million in ad sales on an annual basis, with 70% profit margins, says its founder Noah Everett, in an interview with Mixergy. Everett says that 70% is net profit, or "what we can put in the bank at the end of the day." He's aiming for $3-$4 million in revenue by next year. Everett never raised any financing. TwitPic's success has turned heads. Everett says he's received offers of more than $10 million for the company, but turned them down. Twitpic is a Photo sharing application built on Twitter. So in simple words it let's you share photos on Twitter via phone, computer or Apps. Twitpic currently has 67 million photos uploaded. He turned down the offer because he loves to run Twitpic and it's like his baby. Business Tips via Mixergy, home of the ambitious upstart! An original post by Sociolatte