e502 — Humane Rabbits | Games At Work dot Biz

rabbit on lawn — Photo by Michael Martine, Chapel Hill, NC July 2023

Published 24 February 2025

e502 with Michael and Michael – stories and discussion on AI for career recommendations, game generation, enabled devices such as the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 and Agents, as well as Kindle eBook DRM while Andy is in transit to RubyJam.

Michael and Michael get things started off with a story about Google’s Career Dreamer AI enabled tool to help people explore career possibilities, discover strengths and develop skills.

Turning next to AI Agents, Michael and Michael take a look at the Rabbit Agent and the functionality the software provides. The team then focuses on the news about HP acquiring Humane, and especially on the AI Pin servers shutting down at the end of the month, putting a severe crimp in the functionality of the hardware devices. This also signals that HP sees significant value in the Humane software, and reminds the co-hosts of earlier episodes dealing with technology companies shutting down services for hardware, such as the Jibo robot.

Next up is a discussion on the latest eBook DRM situation with books on the Amazon Kindle, and what people can do right now other than back up books before February 26.

Then the While Waiting game spurs a broader conversation on boredom and screen time before the next topic of AI to generate games spins up. Michael R wraps up this episode with a discussion on the Swift on Android working group, and language portability.

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Selected Links

AI

PCMag article: Google ‘Career Dreamer’ Tool Uses AI to Help You Explore Career Options

Google’s Career Dreamer

Google AI for Developers Gemini API Additional Terms of Service

Pandora Music Genome Project

The Verge article: Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with

Rabbit Tech: LAM playground

The Verge article: Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its remnants to HP

Humane News: HP Accelerates AI Software Investments to Transform the Future of Work

HP Newsroom press release: HP Accelerates AI Software Investments to Transform the Future of Work

Games at Work e464: AI Piano Man, touching on both the Rabbit R1 and the Humane’s AI Pin

Games at Work e230: Dance this AR Around, touching on the shut down of Jibo

Surreal.
This #StarTrek com badge “toy” that uses Bluetooth and costs around just $80 has more functionality than the more expensive #Humane #AI pin will in a few days.

— David Bisset (@davidbisset) 2025-02-20T13:21:18.755Z

Books – eBooks and paper

You can back up all your Kindle books using this script – https://federatedfandom.net/@villainousfriend/114009999021828439
A lot easier than manually downloading them all.
After that, install the Calibre eBook Manager https://calibre-ebook.com/
Install the noDRM plugin for Calibre https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
Give the plugin your Kindle's serial number.
Import your Kindle books into Calibre.
Done.
You now have a DRM-free copy of all your purchased eBooks.
You can copy them to your eReader, convert to ePub, save on a backup disk, etc.

— Terence Eden (@Edent) 2025-02-16T09:23:51.268Z