It could become better than people at playing Pictionary, by drawing images that are most likely to be correctly recognized rather than the human way of translating the model in its head into a picture, and by analyzing what models are most likely to produce a picture rather than the human way of translating the picture into a model in its head. Except if you mean that it playing against itself would make it diverge into its own language of pictures.
Although it might optimize in a direction that doesn’t follow the spirit of the game, anologous to writing out the name of its task.
Actually that could be interesting—could it invent a language that is maximally efficient at communicating concepts?
To your last one, you might enjoy a MOBA where individual players have only information about stuff in their line of sight, but there’s an extra player whose job it is to see everything and give “orders”. I think there was one like that...
It could become better than people at playing Pictionary, by drawing images that are most likely to be correctly recognized rather than the human way of translating the model in its head into a picture, and by analyzing what models are most likely to produce a picture rather than the human way of translating the picture into a model in its head. Except if you mean that it playing against itself would make it diverge into its own language of pictures.
Although it might optimize in a direction that doesn’t follow the spirit of the game, anologous to writing out the name of its task.
Actually that could be interesting—could it invent a language that is maximally efficient at communicating concepts?
To your last one, you might enjoy a MOBA where individual players have only information about stuff in their line of sight, but there’s an extra player whose job it is to see everything and give “orders”. I think there was one like that...