EVERYONE knows the telephone game. I would argue that the telephone game is a subclass of a greater phenomenon that insidiously impacts the quality of our lives. This phenomenon can be characterized by what I’ll call the great fuzziness problem of the human brain. Lets...
On this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz — whose intelligence is anything but artificial — spoke with Mars about how the latest AI techniques intersect with the very ancient art of conversation.Brian Caulfield – Nvidia Full Article and Podcast: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/04/27/what-is-conversational-ai-jason-mars/
When I founded Clinc, that experience quickly became a five-year crash course for commercial AI through its successes (and failures) under my leadership. I saw what real-world challenges existed for large-scale AI systems, the processing requirements for enterprise AI, and the millions of queries being...
This leads to the production of what I call a ‘scalability wall’ for intent driven bots that quickly renders them theoretically impossible to operate. As an intent is added, a super linear growth in training data collection and cleaning is required making increased intelligence intractable.Jason...
It makes me sad to see AI reduced to a gimmick. To be clear, I’m not saying AI doesn’t have an important role to play. It will define the future of technology in many ways. The challenge is looking beyond the noise.Jason Mars on Forbes...
As we are on a journey to define the values and mission of our Computer Science and Engineering department at University of Michigan there was a survey to faculty to get thoughts on some proposed elements. Here is how I reacted Proposed Mission: The mission...
Breaking Bots: Inventing a new Voice in the AI revolution has become an Amazon #1 Bestseller. Quite an honor! This honor is earned from reaching the #1 top sales in one category. Breaking bots has not only achieved this in a single category, but in...
After creating a technology and company that disrupted the landscape of Conversational AI and our expectations of what AI can be in practice, I wrote this book to chronicle the journey and the counterintuitive DNA of Clinc that underlies its success. This book is for...
In the winter semester of 2020 Jason Mars taught a course at University of Michigan that serves an example of how he performs as an instructor. This course is an EECS 498 class entitled The Principles and Practice of Conversational AI. Though Jason often teaches...
The search chair of my CSE department at U. Michigan recently asked me what brought me to Michigan. So I shared my story… Hi Ben! I'd be happy to share my thoughts and experiences coming to Michigan from my prior institution. I remain delighted with...
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