Huh? I’ve worked for 3 adtech companies and they all used ML in the core of their products, and it worked really well

AI is a subset of ML.

Rather the other way around.

Is AI a subset of ML or is AI applied ML? Would that make it AML? Is extensible ML XML? This is confusing.

lol

What utter nonsense. There are entire bidding platforms built on top of AI/ML. And that is just one aspect of adtech.

To be fair, these ad tech platforms are built on top of algorithms that predate the latest AI revolution significantly. Logistic regression and matrix factorization get you very far in adtech. A lot of the performance then comes from heavy engineering.

The claim was that AI wasn't used in Ad Tech at all. Not the latest AI. I agree with your assessment, but to say that AI/ML isn't used in AdTech is just nonsense. AdTech, especially the last 20 years has been built on core AI/ML concepts. I also highly doubt that the latest AI tech isn't being applied somewhere in the AdTech space, but I left AdTech a while ago and am never looking back.

maybe AI is just ML that uses neural networks trained using a GPU. I tend to never say AI and always say ML, but I am old

"AI" is a specific subset of ML. The kind of ML that is used in adtech is the kind that isn't "AI".

It's the other way around, actually

Over confident and wildly incorrect. Leadership rewards this approach.

Seems like you are detached from how adtech works at big tech.

They are all powered by neural networks