2. "you're kind of like a video game." I think this is a fair characterization. It's obviously not a video game, but there is enormous overlap, once you've successfully modeled your perception in vector space.

This is actually my entire strategy for approaching autonomy, I make as much of the problem space a game; just a serious one. And the most successful optimizations and solutions are the ones that adopt techniques from games. Many academic solutions are formalizations for old-school game "hacks".

In my line of work, training, in many occasions, is about making deep computer vision match ground truth, generated by game tech.