AlphaGo

An involving sports-rivalry doc with an AI twist.
-- John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

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AlphaGo

On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea. The best-of-five-game competition, coined The DeepMind Challenge Match, pitted a legendary Go master against an AI program that was still learning to play the world’s most complex board game. AlphaGo chronicles a journey from the backstreets of Bordeaux, past the coding terminals of Google DeepMind in London, and, ultimately, to the seven-day tournament in Seoul. As the drama unfolds before an audience of over 280 million viewers worldwide, more questions emerge: What can artificial intelligence reveal about a 3000-year-old game? What will it teach us about humanity?

Directed by Greg Kohs with an original score by Academy Award nominee, Hauschka.
Not Rated
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
https://www.alphag…
Runtime
90
Language
English
Director
Greg Kohs
Cast
Demis Hassabis, Fan Hui, Aja Huang
FEATURED REVIEW
Charlotte O'Sullivan, London Evening Standard

We need to stop worrying and love AI. That’s the underlying message of this gripping, emotional documentary, which gets us thinking, about thinking, in a whole new way. AlphaGo is a self-improving computer program, designed to play the ancient Chinese board game Go. It was developed by a London ...

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