I won't comment much on this, but I'd say these articles are 2-3 years late and reduces the agency of the people, who in many cases moved to Gemini because they wanted to work on LLMs

> probably the first real-world deployment of a self-improving system that beat humans.

Isn't that Checkers right from the dawn of reinforcement learning?

I think that credit might go to IBM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon