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 (@[email protected])
2025-02-20T13:21:18.755Z



Treetrum Github repo: amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader
Michael Rowe’s Random Thoughts blog: 10 years of Podcasting
Discover Durham: Books Do Furnish a Room
Bookshelf app
Tom’s Guide article: No Kindle? No problem: 5 places to buy DRM-free e-books
Crowd Supply article: Ink Console
Ink Console
Wikipedia article: Chose Your Own Adventure books
Wikipedia article: Infocom
Games – for waiting and for generating
The Verge article: While Waiting is a playful reminder of the joys of boredom
While Waiting on Steam
metro.co.uk article: Xbox is using AI to make games in a disturbing vision of next gen gaming
The Verge article: Microsoft’s Xbox AI era starts with a model that can generate gameplay
Software Development
swift.org forums: Swift on Android Working Group



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