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AI and Machine Creativity
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In this “AI Horizons” podcast episode, Wharton marketing professor Robert Meyer joins Dokyun Lee, an information systems professor at Boston University; Yannick Exner, a doctoral researcher in digital marketing at the Technical University of Munich; and Ankit Sisodia, a Purdue University marketing professor who specializes in the use of machine learning and AI for business applications, to offer glimpses into the profound ways in which AI is changing everything and to share their excitement for Apple Vision Pro.
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