Below, I’ve placed tasks performed by ML systems in family groups and listed some associated actions. The goal is to make it easier to notice workflows that might benefit from ML systems.

Family Tasks Actions
Analyse classify, cluster, pattern-identify, detect anomalies, analyse sentiment, extract comparison, evaluation, critique, profiling, auditing, diagnosing, segmenting, triage, mapping, tagging, labelling, profiling, monitoring
Predict forecast, rank/recommend trend spotting, scoring, risk assessment, demand planning, delegation, routing, estimation, prioritisation
Reason reason/infer, plan/decompose, decide troubleshooting, delegation, root-cause analysis, strategy, scheduling, optimisation, critique
Transform (alter structure, format, fidelity of information without impacting meaning) translate, summarise, denoise, impute, compress/embed formatting, data cleaning, rephrasing, style/tone adaptation, synthesis, vectorising, editing, simplifying, localisation, normalisation
Generate (creation of something new) generate (text/image/code), transcribe, caption draft, design, tool building, prototyping, brainstorming, illustrating, coding, templating, documentation
Retrieve (accurate finding among giant data sets) search/retrieve fact-checking, information gathering, document lookup, semantic search, citation
Interact (exchange of information) converse, instruct/explain interviewing, coaching, tutoring, customer support, negotiation, role-play, guidance, onboarding, feedback delivery, dialogue-driven automation

combinations

The output of one task becomes the input for another in order to perform the ultimate action.

2-family

  1. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) - retrieval, generation
  2. Early warning systems - analysis, prediction
  3. Debate/socratic dialogue - reason, interaction

3-family

  1. Visualisation - analysis, transformation, generation
  2. Automation - reason, transformation, interaction
  3. Conversational knowledge base - retrieval, generation, interaction
  4. Research synthesis - retrieval, reason, generation

4-family

  1. Briefing and report generation - retrieval, analysis, reason, generation
  2. Simulation - analysis, prediction, reason, generation