In Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World, these five terms that you list do appear quite frequently. However, they do not refer to machines; rather, they refer to social classes into which this new society is divided.
Much like the Indian caste system, these five classes of Brave New World are immutable and strictly separated; people cannot move between classes, and they rarely, if ever, interact with people in classes other than their own. Each class is distinguished by the color of its garb, its daily responsibilities, and its living situation, but the differences between the classes are reinforced less so by these everyday banalities and moreso by the ways in which their fetuses are influenced prior to birth and by the effects of hypnopaedia.
Alphas are the highest class, and Epsilons are the lowest class, with the three other classes progressing in from highest to lowest in the following order: Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
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