AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go. It was developed by DeepMind Technologies which was later acquired by 📝Google.
With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for 📝Artificial Intelligence (AI). On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea for an extraordinary best-of-five-game competition, coined The DeepMind Challenge Match. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched as a legendary Go master took on an unproven AI challenger for the first time.
Directed by Greg Kohs with an original score by Academy Award nominee, Hauschka, AlphaGo chronicles a journey from the halls of Oxford, through the backstreets of Bordeaux, past the coding terminals of DeepMind in London, and ultimately, to the seven-day tournament in Seoul. As the drama unfolds, more questions emerge: What can artificial intelligence reveal about a 3000-year-old game? What can it teach us about humanity?
I was introduced to the AlphaGo 🏷️#documentary by 📝Chantle Edillor and recommend it highly. It raises questions about humanity's relationship with artificial intelligence at every level; a prompt for conversation which is contained within a beautifully told story.