To move the analogies into general intelligence, start with the example of Elon Musk (a top notch example of GI). What drives Elon Musk? In interviews he's said

To move the analogies into general intelligence, start with the example of Elon Musk (a top notch example of GI). What drives Elon Musk? In interviews he's said he wants to be useful. He's achieving that goal in a big way. Take the moment he decided to build a rocket. It was after he had a difficult meeting to buy a russian missile. He quickly roughed out, from first principles, that he should be able to build one himself. The /drive/ to make that analysis was in pursuit of his goal (and required reinforcement learning). But what lifelong process filled his brain with all the complex and nuanced information needed to rapidly draw that conclusion? His curiosity, aka unsupervised learning, which led him to learn so many things over the years that culminated in that moment. For this reason, I might make the analogy that RL is the "conductor of the symphony", rather than calling it the "cherry on top" as LeCun does here.