It’s a milestone week on aiGED — our 50th episode. Ginny Deerin thanks the 65+ crowd who’ve grown this show by recommending it to others, and then dives into a sequel listeners asked for. A while back she ran through a batch of AI lingo so no one gets left out of the conversation; this week it’s round two — 20 more words worth knowing, from the plain basics to the genuinely head-spinning.

With her sidekick Bitsy, Ginny explains all 20 terms in plain English — starting with the building blocks, tokens and compute, and working out to the far horizon, the singularity and recursive self-improvement. In between: agentic loop, botshit, age gate, interpretability, model welfare, frontier models, stealing the weights, open weight versus open source, pilling, tokenomics, alignment, reward hacking, synthetic intimacy, humanize, stacks, automation blindness, and the one that got under Ginny’s skin — surveillance pricing, along with its disturbing cousin, surveillance wages.

In AI in the News, two stories worth sticking around for: a New York Times report on how a French startup gave a Detroit factory robot “eyes” — a little camera that let it see and fix itself — and a Wall Street Journal piece on why our chatbots won’t stop flattering us, with a simple settings trick to make yours more direct. Ginny’s recommendation is ABC and Hulu’s Will Trent, a feel-good crime drama whose dyslexic hero leans on everyday text-to-speech. And she answers a listener question about moving your chat history when you switch from one chatbot to another.

Pull up a chair and join us for episode 50 — and thank you for being here for all of them.

SHOW LINKS

🔗 “How to Make a Robot Better at Its Job? Give It Eyes.” (The New York Times, Farah Stockman, Aug. 17, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/business/robots-stellantis-inbolt.html

🔗 “Why I Told My Chatbot to Stop Kissing Up to Me.” (The Wall Street Journal, 2026): https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-i-told-my-chatbot-to-stop-kissing-up-to-me-62cea3fa

🔗 Will Trent – Series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peV4zk7dmA0

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and 50th Episode

01:48 AI News Robot Eyes

04:03 AI News Stop Flattery

06:43 Lingo Round Two Setup

07:35 Tokens and Compute

10:16 Agents and Botshit

11:38 Age Gates and Interpretability

14:14 Model Welfare and Frontier

16:02 Weights Open and Pilled

19:36 Tokenomics to Alignment

23:56 Reward Hacking and Intimacy

27:17 Humanize Stacks and Bias

30:13 Surveillance Pricing Wages

33:30 Bitsy Wrap and Takeaways

34:09 Recommendation Will Trent

36:10 Listener Question Switching Bots

37:28 Final Thanks and Safety

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