Machine assists
The human decides every consequential action; the machine proposes or supports.
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- Human supervises
- The machine decides and acts; a human is expected to monitor and intervene at the task level.
- Machine acts alone
- The machine decides and acts with no human in the loop for that action.
- Machines act and coordinate
- Several machines or agents act on one another, with commitments made between them without a human deciding each one.
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