Yann LeCun Cherry-picks Reinforcement Learning

The self-supervised learning guru and chief AI scientist at Meta AI, Yann LeCun, introduced the'cake analogy', at NIPS 2016. "If intelligence is a cake, the bulk of the cake is unsupervised learning, the icing on the cake is supervised learning, and the cherry on the cake is reinforcement learning." However, while delivering a talk about SSL at NeurIPS 2022 in the context of achieving AGI, LeCun suggested abandoning the four most popular things at the momentum machine learning, including generative models, probabilistic models, contrastive methods, and reinforcement learning, Mofijul Islam pointed out on Twitter. To this, LeCun replied saying that he is not entirely unfamiliar with making statements that go against the common wisdom of the day. Meanwhile, several Twitter users and AI experts also joined in to express their views about it.