Dr. Jason Mars

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About Dr. Jason Mars
Jason Mars’ work is at the intersection of science, technology, and creativity. Jason’s mission to have meaningful impact in the lives of every human is demonstrated by a long list of intellectual and technical contributions.
Jason is a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan where he directs Clarity Lab, one of the best places in the world to be trained in topics spanning artificial intelligence, large scale computing, and programming languages. Among numerous contributions, his lab pioneered award winning work on Sirius (aka Lucida) the world’s first open source sophisticated virtual assistant that simultaneously hears, sees, and understands.
Jason Mars also founded Clinc, a record breaking cutting-edge A.I. company based in Ann Arbor Michigan where he lead the development of the world’s most advanced conversational AI. Focusing first on applying the technology in banking industry, Clinc created a novel, customizable, voice-activated AI assistant and platform that connects humans with their financial stories. From there, Jason lead the company’s technology to address pressing challenges in Healthcare, Automotive and Food Service industries. Under his technical vision and business leadership as CEO from 2015 to 2020 Clinc experienced substantial year over year growth employing 120 employees, raising over 62 million of venture capital dollars, and growing the business to around 10m ARR with over 7 million active users. In his service as CEO he was named Bank Innovations #2 Most Innovative CEO in Banking 2017. and #4 in Top 11 Technologists in Voice AI 2019.
Jason has devoted his career to solving difficult real-world problems, building some of the worlds most sophisticated scalable systems for A.I., computer vision, and natural language processing. This work has been recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business’ 2019 40 under 40 for “career accomplishments, impact in their field and contributions to their community.” Prior to University of Michigan, Jason was a professor at UCSD where he made a number of key contributions in Cloud Computing. He also worked at Google and Intel.
Jason’s work constructing large-scale A.I. and deep learning-based systems and technology has been recognized globally and continues to have a significant impact on industry and academia. Jason holds a PhD in Computer Science from UVA.
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When humans first evolved, we were basically indistinguishable from animals. Then we harnessed the power of fire, and it catapulted us beyond a state of animalism. Since then, human innovation has propelled us from one technological revolution to the next.
We are now at the next world-altering wave of technological evolution: artificial intelligence. But the current AI offerings cannot fulfill our fundamental desire to communicate with our technology through speech. We didn’t evolve to type or use a mouse; we evolved to have conversations, including with our technology. We want the USS Enterprise shipboard computer, J.A.R.V.I.S. from Iron Man, the interface from Her. But we are not there yet.
Conversational AI and AI in general are collectively our next fire, light bulb, or internet. And we must thank Apple, Google, and Amazon for whetting our appetite with Siri, Google Home, and Alexa. But now we’re ready for what’s next. That’s where the groundbreaking work of computer scientist Jason Mars and Clinc, the company he founded, comes in.
Breaking Bots paints a thrilling portrait of the past, present, and future of the AI revolution through Jason’s unlikely journey to AI stardom, the extraordinary rise of Clinc from a scrappy start-up to a juggernaut toppler, and the paradigm-shifting technical and cultural DNA that makes Jason’s work and Clinc’s technology the future of AI.
The AI revolution is at hand―and you are part of the journey!