Naturally, artificial intelligence (AI) was a major topic of discussion at this year’s Streaming Media West conference, and many those conversations were about how companies are converging AI with advertising. We have covered AI-based subtitling and Netflix’s live streaming roadmap in separate Faultline articles, while this piece is the third and final in our series from the Santa Monica symposium. Expectations were high for insights into the much-debated use of AI in ad tech, and an all-star panel discussion delivered a range of valuable perspectives on a broad but increasingly critical topic for the future of the streaming industry. The conversation began with Disney, though strangely not with a current employee. Sarge Sargent is the former Director of Ad Platforms…