Humbled and excited to receive the coveted AIS Fellow Award at ICIS 2022 in Denmark. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding global & local contributions to the Tech discipline in terms of Research, Teaching & Service. About the award: https://t.co/25COdiCJAC

AI on a wicked race to the bottom! Grok 4: $0.28/M tokens Gemini 3 Flash: $0.50/M tokens Gemini 2.5 Flash: $0.30/M tokens Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: $0.10/M tokens GPT-4 in ’23: $37.50! Look out below, and let’s go! ❤️

In this week's episode of the @MobileDevMemo podcast, I speak with Anindya Ghose (NYU) and Vilma Georgia Todri (Emory) about their new paper, The Impact of Visual Generative AI on Advertising Effectiveness. To listen, search for "Mobile Dev Memo" wherever you consume podcast

AI created visual ads got 20% more clicks than ads created by human experts as part of their jobs... unless people knew the ads are AI-created, which lowers click-throughs to 31% less than human-made ads Importantly, the AI ads were selected by human experts from many AI options

The Impact of Visual Generative AI on Advertising Effectiveness https://t.co/FNNKT4peZ0 with @padamopoulos and Hyesoo Lee

Thanks to @eric_seufert for hosting @vtodri and me on his podcast. We discussed our new paper on using generative AI for testing display ad effectiveness where we found that GenAI-created ad creatives outperform those crafted by humans? Link to the paper below

Go read @EmilyStewartM's new piece about how "middlemen are swallowing the economy." I had the pleasure of speaking with Emily about the topic. (Per @superwuster's Age of Extraction, Amazon's take rate on merchants can exceed 50% after accounting for advertising fees!) This story

The many faces of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia! Over just a few days, I witnessed a city in the midst of one of the most rapid social and cultural transformations anywhere in the world. AI has become the new bedrock of Saudi Arabia’s economic vision. It’s incredible to see a nation

Today I turn 55. I’m the fittest, sharpest, and happiest I’ve ever been. If I’m an outlier, it’s not because I’m built different or discovered a secret formula. The truth is far less glamorous: It’s a million tiny choices, compounded over decades. Here are 55 of them: 1.

“Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out - compute demand keeps accelerating and compounding across training and inference — each growing exponentially. AI is going everywhere, doing everything, all at once.” $NVDA

Full paper available here https://t.co/FNNKT4oH9s

Finding #1 — Creation > modification. genAI-created ads consistently outperform both human and AI-modified ads, lifting CTR by up to 19% in field settings. Finding #2 — Fewer constraints, bigger gains. Performance improves further when genAI also designs product packaging—the

we run a mixed-methods study: latent diffusion pipelines + a lab experiment + a field study. We compare three approaches: (1) expert-crafted ads (2) genAI-modified ads (AI enhances human designs) (3) genAI-created ads (fully AI-generated)

1/ Creative advertising is getting disrupted in an AI-first world. As targeting tightens and attention fragments, brands are turning to visual genAI to scale. A key question: should AI create ads end-to-end—or just assist humans? Our new working paper ( with Hyesoo Lee, @vtodri

Before we had Dada @SGanguly99 ! Now we have a Didi - Captain Richa Ghosh :)

Interesting read. It lists 36 AI-driven shifts disrupting society. In summary , traditional 9-5 jobs fade as agents automate middlemen roles, freelancers thrive with portfolios, and micro-operators replace agencies. Agree 👍

It’s happened. The AI flippening is here.

Some Places to Visit once in a lifetime.🧵 1. Lan Ha Bay, Cat Ba Island, Vietnam 🇻🇳

Voted early. This is the most consequential mayoral election New York City has seen in decades. Go vote, New Yorkers — every vote can make a difference!

"More passive investing in a stock results in increased co-movement with other stocks, leading CFOs of these companies to set higher discount rates, even when the fundamental riskiness of their business is unchanged. As a result, these companies cut back on investment."

Pretty interesting: Companies that have adopted AI aren't hiring fewer senior employees, but they have cut back on hiring juniors ones.