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AlphaGo

Disciplines:
documentary
ai
go
artificial intelligence/deepmind

Summary

Greg Kohs's 2017 documentary following DeepMind's AlphaGo system as it defeats 18-time world champion Lee Sedol in the board game Go — a milestone moment in AI development — exploring what it means for a machine to master humanity's most complex game.

Core Contribution

Creates the definitive documentary about AI surpassing human expertise in complex reasoning — AlphaGo's emotional account of Lee Sedol's reaction to defeat (especially his one miraculous win in Game 4) makes the abstract AI breakthrough viscerally human.

Historical Influences

Greg Kohs DeepMind AlphaGo

Intellectual Lineage

Greg Kohs DeepMind Netflix

Allied Works

Deep Thinking The Social Dilemma

Contemporaries & Peers

iO

Minds Influenced

AI documentary traditionLenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

AlphaGo documentaryLee Sedol's Game 4 Move 78

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