AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary
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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...
  • @CandelestineEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    This one is really good, I remember finding it during a covid thing. Works really well with this other deep dive into the Deep Blue chess computer that beat Kasparov back in the 90s:

    https://youtu.be/HwF229U2ba8?si=xAT-oFT4sygVdczz

    The two documentaries together paint a really neat picture for the development of game-playing AIs over the years.

    Then finish with some stuff on Starcraft 2 pros talking about playing against AlphaStar. No amazing documentaries on that that I know of yet (hint, hint) but there’s commentators watching confirmed matches and giving that professional-tier breakdown of what you’re actually looking at.