human-in-the-loop

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

A human-in-the-loop system si one where a human makes or strongly influences the final decsion. For example, in some safety-ciritical situations, such as medicine or air traffic control, there may be professional or regulatory reasons way a human must oversee a final decision. It is particularly important in autonomous weapons, where many argue that the final decison to fire shoudl come from a human. Sometimes the term is applied more genrallly when the AI includes human participants, for exmaple online AI-driven chat whcuh may pass more complex queries to human, altough arguably this is more properly egarded as human computation.

Used on pages 408, 459, 476, 481, 484, 488, 506, 563

Also known as human in the loop