AI buzzword bingo is a 5×5 meeting card filled with current artificial-intelligence jargon. The built-in AI Hype pack contains 40 terms and tools. Mark them manually or let private on-device transcription follow the meeting automatically.
How to play
- Open Bizword Bingo and choose the AI Hype pack.
- Start listening or use the card manually during a product review, keynote, pitch, or planning call.
- Mark a term when it is actually said — not merely implied by a suspicious architecture diagram.
- Five across, down, or diagonally wins. Copy the card image into Slack or save it.
AI buzzword glossary for 2026
Some of these terms name precise techniques; others become fuzzy when detached from an implementation. The card is funnier when everyone knows the intended meaning.
| Term | Plain-English meaning |
|---|---|
| Agentic | A system that can pursue a goal through multiple steps, choose actions, and use tools with some autonomy. |
| Agent harness | The runtime around a model that manages prompts, tools, state, permissions, retries, and observations. |
| RAG | Retrieval-augmented generation: fetch relevant external material and give it to a model before it answers. |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol: a standard interface for connecting AI applications to tools and contextual data. |
| Evals | Repeatable tests used to measure model or system quality against defined tasks and criteria. |
| Guardrails | Rules and controls intended to constrain inputs, outputs, tool use, or side effects. |
| Ground truth | The reference answer or verified data used to judge a system’s output. |
| Hallucination | A fluent output that is unsupported, fabricated, or inconsistent with the available evidence. |
| Vector store | A database optimized to retrieve items by numerical embedding similarity. |
| Embedding | A numerical representation that places semantically related items near one another in a vector space. |
| Context window | The amount of input and generated text a model can consider in one interaction. |
| Tool use | A model selecting and calling an external function, API, database, browser, or other capability. |
| Inference | Running a trained model to produce an output from new input. |
| Test-time compute | Extra computation spent while answering, often through search, sampling, or iterative reasoning. |
| Fine-tuning | Additional training that adapts a model’s behavior or capabilities using a targeted dataset. |
| Human in the loop | A workflow where a person reviews, approves, corrects, or steers an automated step. |
| Agent loop | The repeated cycle of observing state, deciding an action, executing it, and evaluating the result. |
| Vibe coding | Building software primarily by directing an AI coding tool and judging results, with less direct code authorship. |
| AI slop | Low-quality generated material produced cheaply or at scale without enough review. |
| Workslop | Generated workplace output that looks finished but shifts verification or cleanup work to someone else. |
What is actually on the card?
The current pack also includes agent, ontology, fine-tune, foundation model, multimodal, semantic, reasoning, deterministic, alignment, frontier model, tokens, copilot, prompt engineering, RLHF, reinforcement learning, chain of thought, scaling laws, AGI, Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. Bizword Bingo randomizes the board from the larger pool.
Keep the pack current
AI language changes quickly. Fork the built-in pack to add the terms dominating your own organization, delete stale phrases, or create separate cards for research, product, sales, and engineering meetings. Custom packs can be exported as JSON or shared in a compressed URL.
Private automatic listening
Automatic marking uses the Moonshine speech model locally in a browser Web Worker. Audio does not leave the device. That makes it useful for ordinary internal meetings without sending the conversation to a second transcription service. Always follow your organization’s meeting and device policies.
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