As a teacher, I try to keep an open mind, but consistently I can find out in 5 minutes of talking to a student if they understand the material. I might just go all in for the oral exams.
I think the PR is making it seem that Deepmind is not standing on the shoulder of giants, when in fact it very much is. The paper itself makes this clear. I wish them luck!
Apologies for the metacomment, but HN is a funny place. There is a certain type of learning that is deemed good ('math for AI') and a certain type of learning that is deemed bad ('leetcode for AI').