Reading the article closely, the genius is the coder, not the AI.
One of these days, soon if not already, one of these AI’s will ‘escape’ control of it’s programmers and insinuate itself into the internet, like a huge virus that we cannot stop.
There was a sci-fi novel written late 80’s, IIRC, where the ‘Internet’ became so huge it became ‘self-aware’ and decided it would control everything..................
Spot on.