The Moon, the Mythos, the Mayhem | FAFO Friday

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OK, here’s this week’s FAFO Friday… (we record on Fridays and the show has Friday/weekend vibes, so just go with it no matter what day of the week it is :)

This week, Kwaku and I…

• Gape at the moon in wonder
• Ask why we sent humans on this mission when space robots could’ve done the job (related: why climb Mount Everest?)
• Marvel at Anthropic’s new Mythos model, which they say is remarkably good at finding flaws in the world’s critical software — or is this just another example of their marketing savvy? — or both!?
• Dig into AI world models and Jeff Bezos’s (modestly named) Project Prometheus
• Ask whether we want robots in our houses (yes, but only if they’re dumb)
• Keep FAFO weird (because in the age of AI that’s how you prove you’re human)

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