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Feedback loop

The cycle that turns a process's real-world outcomes into improvement: capture what happened (especially human corrections), analyze for patterns, improve the process, and verify the improvement. The offensive half of governance, versus monitoring's defense.

Defined in 4 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Business AI Transformation.

How each discipline defines it

The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.

Foundations of Robotics and Physical AI

A control architecture in which the current output (measured angle) is compared to the desired output (commanded angle) and the difference (error) is used to generate a corrective control signal. Feedback allows the system to reject disturbances and maintain position accuracy against external forces.

Business AI Transformation

The cycle that turns a process's real-world outcomes into improvement: capture what happened (especially human corrections), analyze for patterns, improve the process, and verify the improvement. The offensive half of governance, versus monitoring's defense.

EU AI Act Implementation Expert

A dynamic in which the outputs of an AI system influence the future training data for that system, causing any bias in current outputs to be amplified in subsequent training cycles. Explicitly addressed in Article 10(2)(f) and Recital 67.

Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation

A structure in which a system's output, directly or indirectly, becomes one of its own future inputs. Feedback loops determine how a system responds to a disturbance over time.

Where it is taught

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Terms it appears with

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