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.

// Abstract
Generative 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.

// Bio
Nick 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.

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Website: http://jnhasty.com/
Previous talks:
https://engineering.giphy.com/giphy2vec-natural-language-processing-giphy/
https://changelog.com/practicalai/38
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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