DocumentaryLesWWW reviewStill trueGreg Kohs, 2017
AlphaGo
A documentary about artificial intelligence and the game of Go. A look at how AI and its capabilities are evolving.
What you get out of it
Understand how artificial intelligence and its capabilities are evolving
The most human moment of the match is played by the machine.
Why I recommend it
Seoul, 2016: an AI takes on Lee Sedol, one of the best Go players in the world. The documentary captures what papers never show: the faces of the engineers who don't understand what their machine just played.
Move 37 has become my favorite shortcut for talking about AI in training sessions: the machine that surprises, the human who responds. An hour and a half, accessible with no prior knowledge, even if you have never placed a stone on a Go board.
Has it aged well?
Still true. In 2019, Lee Sedol retired, explaining that AI had become an entity that cannot be defeated.
