My attempt to map the research *doctrines* of various groups working on Artificial General Intelligence.

Although one might see names of individuals here as well as organizations, take it just as identification of the organization behind the person and a very narrow slice of their overall research portfolio.
Here is a @swardley map that captures the relationship of doctrine with other individual and organizational processes.
We can capture a party's doctrine by either an explicitly stated agenda or an aggregation of the kind of approach that is pursued. A doctrine is an invariant property of the overall behavior of a party.
In this map one can see the conflict between different parties (compare @garymarcus with the deep learning folks).
Also you can compare groups like @DeepMind and @OpenAI which although are both working on Deep RL. Deepmind has a neuroscience flavor that is reflected in its classification as being more organic.
Because it is unnatural to capture a high dimensional concept such as doctrine in just two dimensions. The dimensions have been selected to be purposefully ambiguous so as to allow the reader some leeway in interpretation.
The vertical axis reflects a difference in inspiration for the hypothesis generated by the doctrine. One can be biologically inspired like @numenta or one can be less so, but informed by a mathematical idea (i.e. free energy).
The horizontal axis reflect the known tension between representationalists and non-representationlists. In one side are functionalists that identify specific mechanisms. On the other extreme are enactivists that try to capture the complexities of the ecosystem.
Every scientific discipline as well as each individual researcher follows a research agenda that is explicitly or implicitly driven by a doctrine. The debates we see between various groups are the manifestations of the conflicts in doctrine.
There is an argument to be made (see: @blamlab ) that the complexity of intelligence requires a pluralistic approach, yet people and organizations seek a dogmatic stance instead. This is of course unavoidable, it is the nature of the human condition.
I've captured this in a blog post that hopefully will expand the details: https://t.co/Qek1Z1WH7S

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The Swastik is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon. Swastik has been Sanatan Dharma’s symbol of auspiciousness – mangalya since time immemorial.


The name swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक, pronounced: swastik) &denotes “conducive to wellbeing or auspicious”.
The word Swastik has a definite etymological origin in Sanskrit. It is derived from the roots su – meaning “well or auspicious” & as meaning “being”.


"सु अस्ति येन तत स्वस्तिकं"
Swastik is de symbol through which everything auspicios occurs

Scholars believe word’s origin in Vedas,known as Swasti mantra;

"🕉स्वस्ति ना इन्द्रो वृधश्रवाहा
स्वस्ति ना पूषा विश्ववेदाहा
स्वस्तिनास्तरक्ष्यो अरिश्तनेमिही
स्वस्तिनो बृहस्पतिर्दधातु"


It translates to," O famed Indra, redeem us. O Pusha, the beholder of all knowledge, redeem us. Redeem us O Garudji, of limitless speed and O Bruhaspati, redeem us".

SWASTIK’s COSMIC ORIGIN

The Swastika represents the living creation in the whole Cosmos.


Hindu astronomers divide the ecliptic circle of cosmos in 27 divisions called
https://t.co/sLeuV1R2eQ this manner a cross forms in 4 directions in the celestial sky. At centre of this cross is Dhruva(Polestar). In a line from Dhruva, the stars known as Saptarishi can be observed.