Inferring Creativity // Nick Hasty // #198

Dec 26, 2023

Listen to Nick Hasty, Director of Product, Discovery & Machine Learning at Giphy, discuss the nature of creativity and its relationship to intelligence. Explore the transition from GIFs to stickers, the impact of L.L.M.s on shipping ML products, the decision-making process for using language models, combining intuition and data in AI product development, insights and challenges in helping startups and leading teams, and the paradoxes in the AI industry.

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Introduction

00:00 • 6min

From GIFs to Stickers: A Journey at Giffy

05:36 • 24min

The Impact of L.L.M.s on Shipping ML Products

29:10 • 2min

Using Language Models vs Traditional Models

30:48 • 4min

Combining Intuition and Data in AI Product Development

35:04 • 10min

Helping Startups and Leading Teams: Insights and Challenges

45:26 • 7min

Paradoxes in the AI Industry and the Challenges of Raising Money

52:38 • 3min

Nick Hasty is the Director of Product, Discovery & Machine Learning at Giphy, an animated-gif search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.

MLOps podcast #198, Inferring Creativity.// AbstractGenerative AI models have captured our imaginations with their ability to produce new "creative" works such as visually striking images, poems, stories, etc, and their outputs often rival or excel what most humans can do. I believe that these developments should make us re-think the nature of creativity itself, and through identifying parallels and differences between generative models and the human brain we can establish a framework to talk about creativity, and its relationship to intelligence, that should hold up against future revelations in ML and neuroscience. // BioNick Hasty is a technologist & entrepreneur with a background in the creative arts. He was the founding engineer for GIPHY, where he’s worked for the last 10 years and now leads ML/AI product initiatives. He also servers as a consultant helping early-stage startups scale their product and engineering teams. Before GIPHY, he worked with arts+cultural organizations such as Rhizome.org and the Alan Lomax archives. He got his graduate degree from NYU’s ITP program.// MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs// MLOps Swag/Merchhttps://mlops-community.myshopify.com/// Related LinksWebsite: http://jnhasty.com/Previous talks:https://engineering.giphy.com/giphy2vec-natural-language-processing-giphy/https://changelog.com/practicalai/38⁠--------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ -------------Join our Slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slackFollow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunitySign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/registerCatch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/Connect with Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickhasty/Timestamps:[00:00] Nick's preferred coffee[00:15] Takeaways[06:58] Nick's background in ML[12:15] Nick's GIPHY journey[17:39] Nick's Success Factors[20:50] The trajectory of AI[28:09] Identifying as a product engineer[32:42] Evaluate LLMs vs. Traditional Models[35:03] AI Product: Intuition vs Data[38:53] Giphy AI Product Development[45:25] Startups and Venture Assistance[52:30] AI Funding Landscape Shift[54:00] Wrap up