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Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by dlp211 on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:21PM (#30879910)
What utter nonsense. There are entire bidding platforms built on top of AI/ML. And that is just one aspect of adtech.
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Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by whiplash451 on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:42PM (#30880238)
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.
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Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by dlp211 on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:01PM (#30880497)
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.
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Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by MrMan on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:01PM (#30881287)
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
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Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by otabdeveloper4 on Friday April 01, 2022 @03:43PM (#30882470)
"AI" is a specific subset of ML. The kind of ML that is used in adtech is the kind that isn't "AI".
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Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by kettleballroll on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:07PM (#30882735)
It's the other way around, actually
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