That the notion of intelligence requires the notion of instincts and hardwired self-preservation, so that training/learning phase would be more efficient and meaningful.

Basically, we should try to build an animal, which has an astonishing amount of intelligence (unattainable by any ML yet) in the evolved to match the shared environment brain's structure) first, before trying attacking a human-like intelligence.

Animal mind first. All the pattern-matching on hardwired pre-build structure, augmented (transformed) by learning is here.