Fresh off the Salesforce.com's acquisition of the company he founded (MuleSoft), Ross Mason is now applying his entrepreneurial thinking to the burgeoning areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Mason has a theory -- one that makes perfect sense -- about how organizations that lack the right nervous systems (aka: API-led application networks) will not be able to fully leverage these new technologies. The result he says will be something like a "brain in a jar." Mason also discusses some of his favorite areas of AI and the responsibilities that go with bringing AI technology to the market.