The "steal their thunder" is interpretation. What I'm saying is that you believe they solved NS on a lark to bully some other researchers, and that this is not impressive?
What's impressive for a human and for an AI are two different things.
Magnus Carlson had a peak ELO rating of almost 2900.
Would you be impressed with someone with an ELO of 3700?
Would you still be impressed if I told you it was Stockfish?
OpenAI didn't go looking for a tough-for-an-AI problem to solve - they went looking for one that looked like it was easy since it they had heard it had already been solved.
As a developer yes, especially given that it runs on a PC, and DeepBlue in it's day was really more impressive since is used custom ASICs.
But, I assume the Stockfish developers aren't comparing themselves to Magnus.
Let's see if OpenAI, or someone else, can get these sort of physics/math results out of a desktop PC - that would also be an impressive piece of engineering!
