Machines
Systems that move atoms: vehicles, aircraft, vessels, drones, robots, plants, and infrastructure. In the data, the families physical and boundary.
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- Software acting on machines
- Software agents whose actions reach the physical world through devices they control: a home, a vehicle, a plant. The family bridge.
- Software agents
- Agents that act on data and systems: coding agents, enterprise assistants, evaluation runs, customer-facing chatbots. The family software.
- Agents moving money
- Systems that execute transactions: trading systems, smart contracts, shopping and payment agents. The family transaction.
- Boundary case
- A case included to mark the edge of scope: a system that acted without a human deciding, where the autonomy is contested or the system is conventional automation. Labeled, and excluded from counts where the label says so.
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