Summary: - Google overhyped their results against a weak baseline. This seems to be commonplace in academic publishing, especially new-ish fields where benchma

Summary: - Google overhyped their results against a weak baseline. This seems to be commonplace in academic publishing, especially new-ish fields where benchmarks aren't well-established. There was a similar backlash against OpenAI's robot hand, where they used simulation for the physical robotic movements and used a well-known algorithm for the actual Rubik's Cube solving. I still think it's an impressive step forward for the field.