Response to this news in Asia was skeptical, claiming Fan was not a sufficiently impressive player. But we quickly see the results, as a former European champion player, Fan Hui, is recruited for a five-game tournament against the AlphaGo program and loses them all. How this works is, unsurprisingly, a challenge for the film to explain. ![]() Rather than having Go players teach a computer how to play, they set things up so the program could learn for itself. The Google-owned DeepMind company, “an Apollo kind of program” for artificial intelligence, decided to take on this challenge by using neural networks. ![]() ![]() So, while the things some experts say in the doc’s intro scenes - playing Go is “like putting your hand on the third rail of the universe,” one claims - are needlessly overblown, writing a computer program to play this game makes writing the Garry Kasparov-beating Deep Blue chess program look like coding Pong.
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