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In advertising, when does AI become more 'I' and less 'A'?

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In advertising, when does AI become more 'I' and less 'A'?

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Mike Shields
Jan 15, 2021
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I recently made a crack on Twitter when I was served an ad prior to watching a video on YouTube. The ad urged me to sign up for Disney+ to check out season 2 of “The Mandalorian” - and I asked whether this represented AI, machine learning or computer vision.

It was a bit of a cheap shot - there are explainable ad targeting mishaps on the web all the time…

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