Given the topic they were excited about was "basic math problems being solved" it immediately indicated to me as well that this is a completely separate approach and likely in the vein of DeepMind's focus with things like AlphaZero.
In which case it's pretty appropriate to get excited about solving grade school math if you were starting from scratch with persistent self-learning.
Though with OpenAI's approach to releasing papers on their work lately, we may be waiting a long time to see a genuine paper on this. (More likely we'll see a paper from the parallel development at a different company after staff shift around bringing along best practices.)
In which case it's pretty appropriate to get excited about solving grade school math if you were starting from scratch with persistent self-learning.
Though with OpenAI's approach to releasing papers on their work lately, we may be waiting a long time to see a genuine paper on this. (More likely we'll see a paper from the parallel development at a different company after staff shift around bringing along best practices.)