> [spokesdrone] acknowledged that the artificial intelligence firm “fell short” in its execution of the recent promotional message

While simultaneously admitting that promotional messages are fully on the roadmap, and they're in the "A-B testing the acceptable format" phase.

Can't say I'm surprised -- if the "corner the compute resources market" gambit doesn't work out, "unseat Google as the world's leading ad shoveler" is pretty much the only remaining viable business model, right?

Why not perform the testing by showing all the formats at once in random order and asking the user which one should've appeared at the top?