That OpenAI article is based on the paper: Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning by Tim Salimans, Jonathan Ho, Xi Chen, Ily

That OpenAI article is based on the paper: Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning by Tim Salimans, Jonathan Ho, Xi Chen, Ilya Sutskever This seems like counter-evidence to the idea that people are unable to challenge the stars of the dominant paradigm.