In some cases it’s clear what each party brings to the collaboration. Because humans still have greater manual dexterity they’re the ones picking parts out of bins in the newest Amazon warehouses, while Kiva robots bring the shelves full of bins to the people quickly and reliably. The VC algorithm, if properly constructed, will systematically and objectively take into account “prospective companies’ financing… intellectual property and previous funding rounds” in a way that might be hard for biased, pressed-for-time humans to replicate. And chess computers keep human players from some kinds of dumb moves — the ones whose negative future consequences should have been foreseen, but weren’t.