Documentary Style
Topicalalphago
AI achieves what experts thought impossible for another decade. This gripping chronicle captures the historic moment—and reveals as much about human intuition as artificial intelligence.
Year
2017
Type
film
Runtime
90 min
Language
English
Director
Greg Kohs
Genres
Summary
The ancient game of Go has more possible configurations than atoms in the observable universe. Mastering it through AI was considered a decade away—until 2016, when Google's DeepMind challenged Lee Sedol, the world's greatest Go player.
The film follows the week-long tournament watched by millions, capturing the DeepMind team's preparations and Lee Sedol's journey against an opponent unlike any before. What unfolds over five games reveals something unexpected about the relationship between human intuition and machine learning, creativity and calculation, the moves we see coming and those that surprise us all.
A chronicle of the moment AI mastered humanity's most complex game, raising questions about what machines can learn from us—and what remains uniquely human.