[posterboy]

You talk about a static image, but navigating the camera requires strategy, attention, and adds to the focus. If you take that away, it's just a turbo charged pen-and-paper RPG with a time limit on rounds.

They could train against the API, reinforcing the AI trying to predict the state from vision. But with limited APM it would be pretty difficult for the AI to keep track of everything. And, potentially, it would still not be the same as a human looking at it. I'm not sure whether human attention is a particularly bad example of efficient resource allocation. I'm very biased to think it is still the gold standard. But the fact that deepmind didn't focus on this implies they were not finding it interesting enough, and/or too difficult.

Anyhow, (visual) exploration is a step up from mere image recognition