It very likely already did, specifically in Go. The problem is that humans would still be required to comprehend what they are seeing :-) letting agents develop

It very likely already did, specifically in Go. The problem is that humans would still be required to comprehend what they are seeing :-) letting agents develop strategies in an unsupervised manner has already yielded strategies we haven’t figured out ourselves. Other examples that come to mind are video compression (see twominutepapers) and proteine folding! Think about it like this: if the domain of a problem we want AI to solve is so complex that we can barely formulate the question, how could we be confident that we can understand 100% of the answer we get? “Here, gpu, make sense of this 20-dimensional problem my brain can’t even approximately visualize!”