AlphaGo

This movie is about a board game called "Go", and FYI it's the oldest board game which was invented in China and it's considered more complex than "Chess" although its simple rules and pieces.

However, the movie will not tell you the story behind "Go", but it's about the new forever going conflict between man and machine. And it tried to answer a question of What will happen if AI Go player was an opponent to a human Go player ?

The rhythm of the movie is really good with nice sound effects matching the condition of the scenes, you may feel bored at some points but that will happen very few. You will absolutely download any Go App after watching this movie and you may even love the game of Go.

Finally,it's a good light documentary movie, not too informative that you get bored of and not too cinematic that would get you out of the mood of documentaries.

What an amazing day well done film! I recently watched another file, The Surrounding Game about the game of Go and was not sure if I wanted watch another film base on the game. This film was much more than just about a man playing a machine in a board game. What happened was history-making and to have witnessed it unfold in the way that the film presented it was remarkable. At one point in the film, I was even holding back a few years. Very well done!

A classic case of man versus machine, without the science fiction. Awesome viewing experience that has you rooting for both sides at various points. Never heard of the game Go before viewing and still have yet to play it, that should be testament to how well the human side of the story is conveyed.

I knew about Go but not the complexities of the game.

This is more about AI but what it means to be human.

The European champion won my heart

Just thrilling amazing production.

What is the last numeral in the Pi sequence? What is the meaning of infinity? Where is the transition located between the two views of a wire frame cube? And what has actually taken place when one has played a "God move" in the game of Go - a game whose possible iterations are greater in number than the sum total of all the atoms in the universe?

This documentary enthralled me from start to finish and I am neither a Go player nor someone versed in computer science. It is one of many stories involving mankind's first faltering steps in the development of artificial intelligence. This movie summarizes one of these attempts against the backdrop of what is believed to be mankind's oldest and most difficult strategy game. Perhaps the greatest human mind to have ever played the game of Go is pitted against a computer system which has taught itself to play Go through a process known as "re-enforced learning" in which a program driving a computer played itself through millions of iterations and learned from its mistakes, much the same way as humans do, but with unbelievably greater speed.

The movie demonstrates the greatness and the limitations of both the machine and the man - the greatness and intelligence of the computer scientist, and the greatness, spirit and nobility of the human heart. When watching this movie I was reminded of the legend of John Henry, "a steel driving man" - a man pitted against a machine in an almost superhuman competitive effort of honor and determination.

This movie is probably not for everyone, all I can say is that virtually everyone I have recommended it to in the past has later expressed their sincere gratitude to me for having appraised them of it.