On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea.
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 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 Google 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?
Featuring
Lee Sedol
Go Champion, (18 World Titles)
Demis Hassabis
Co-Founder & CEO, DeepMind
Dave Silver
Lead Researcher for AlphaGo
Fan Hui
European Go Champion, 2013-15
Aja Huang
Lead Programmer, DeepMind
Cade Metz
Senior Writer, WIRED
Martin Rees
Astronomer Royal,
University of Cambridge
Frank Lantz
Director, NYU Game Center
Maddy Leach
Program Manager, DeepMind
Nam Chi Hyung
Professor of Baduk Studies,
Myongji University
Nick Bostrom
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Oxford
Master Kwon
Director, KIBA School
I want my style of Go to be something different, something new, my own thing, something that no one has thought of before.
Lee Sedol
Go Champion (18 World Titles)
We think of DeepMind as kind of an Apollo program effort for AI. Our mission is to fundamentally understand intelligence and recreate it artificially.
Demis Hassabis
Co-Founder & CEO, DeepMind
The Game of Go is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. Everything we've ever tried in AI, it just falls over when you try the game of Go.
Dave Silver
Lead Researcher for AlphaGo
All the things I learned in my life is with Go. It looks like a mirror. I see Go, I also see myself.
Fan Hui
European Go Champion, 2013-15