Thom Jenkins
@thomjenko
“You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
“resist buying into and perpetuating the public stereotyping of professions that by their nature operate in realms of personal stress” Brené Brown
We pioneered the first ultra-realistic Text to Speech model, and recently launched the world's most accurate Speech to Text model, Scribe. But we're not stopping there. Today, we're taking one small step for man, and one giant leap for man's best friend... with Text to Bark.
Can you imagine if vibe coding and the pandemic lockdowns had coincided? 🤯
Vibe coding has been great for my health. Sure, you can multitask between agents but sometimes you just need to wait and see the latest output. That is the time for 500m on the rowing erg.
One of the most common minor nuisances of living in the US with a British accent is I can’t tell Hey Google to start a timer without it thinking I’m asking it to stop a timer. Have to vocab switch to begin or commence.
Some people find childhood difficult because they use it to grow up. Others find adulthood difficult for the opposite reason. The only thing more annoying than a precocious child? An altricial adult.
Tariffs could be less about reviving manufacturing jobs and more about AI robotics protectionism. Done right, that’s an achievable end. How to mitigate the costs?
Third of the Jenkids to learn to ride on a @LittleBigBikes bike
Asked ChatGPT new image gen to create a social media tile to let pet owners know a clinic is on PetsApp. Given people know what their local vet team looks like I suggested it shouldn’t include any faces… 😹🙀

Just read that scientists have developed literal mind-viruses, which improve dopamine storage and reverse age-related motor function impairment. This is from Behrstock and Svendsen 2004. So I’m a little behind the state of the art but still 🤯
