'AlphaGo' Documentary Will Show How Google DeepMind Beat a Human

For a brief moment last spring, the world was looking at artificial intelligence because it beat the world champion at Go, the ancient game that was long thought to be unplayable by A.I. because it requires human-like contextual thinking to win. On Thursday, news of a documentary about that moment was announced and will show at New York's Tribeca Film Festival at the end of April. The film is directed by Greg Kohs and follows the story of how the Google DeepMind team played through the go tournament and beat Lee Sedol -- the world's best go player who had dominated the international field for the last decade. With simple rules but a near-infinite number of possible outcomes, the ancient Chinese board game go has long been considered the holy grail of artificial intelligence. Director Greg Kohs' absorbing documentary chronicles Google's DeepMind team as it takes on one of the world's top go players in a weeklong tournament, pitting man against machine in a competition that reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of A.I. Go sounds like a simple game -- two players place different colored stones on a checkered board, trying to capture their opponent's stones by surrounding them with nine of their own.