10/18/2024

AlphaGo - The Movie - Available on You Tube

A fantastic documentary about the early stages of DeepMind, btw their associates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper just received the Chemistry Nobel Prize for AlphaFold, is available on YouTube (link below). I highly recommend watching it! The 1-hour and 30-minute documentary gives incredible insight into the power of AI and AGI, specifically how it was applied to the game of Go. While the entire documentary is captivating, the highlight for me was Game 4, where Lee Sedol, the world champion of Go, made an astonishing 1-in-10,000 move to defeat AlphaGo (at the 1h07 mark). It’s fascinating to see how games, much like in the 17th century with the development of probability and statistics, were used as a testing ground for this cutting-edge technology back in 2016. If AI could perform at this level against a brilliant mind in such a complex game (winning 4-1), just imagine what it can do today, 8 years later, for you and your organization. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I’ll be watching it again soon with my kids! "...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. 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 in history. Directed by Greg Kohs and with an original score by Academy Award nominee Hauschka, AlphaGo had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. It has since gone on to win countless awards and near universal praise for a story that 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? Best documentary winner: Denver International Film Festival (2017), Warsaw International Film Festival (2017), and Traverse City Film Festival (2017). Official selection at Tribeca Film Festival (2017), BFI London Film Festival (2017), and Critics' Choice Documentary Awards (2017). ..." https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y?si=gByIowKsxzwG0ysH

- Pedro

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