What Does This Mean?

HITL

[ TECH ][ AI ][ JARGON ]

FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: AI VocabularyCLUSTER: human_oversight

Short for human-in-the-loop: a system or workflow in which a person takes part in the process, for example reviewing, correcting or approving what an automated or AI system produces.

EXPLAINER

Professor Rahul Jain · original source ↗

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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""The pipeline is HITL: a reviewer approves every flagged output.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wikipedia dates the definition to a U.S. Department of Defense modeling and simulation glossary of January 1998 and an ergonomics encyclopedia of 2006; in machine learning it means humans helping computers make decisions.

FIRST SEEN

1998 (DoD modeling and simulation glossary, per Wikipedia)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2020s

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

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DOCUMENTED SINCE

1998 (DoD modeling and simulation glossary, per Wikipedia)

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