Review of AlphaGo

AlphaGo (2017)
6/10
Great watch but misses an important piece
22 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
SPOILER WARNING I liked this feature very much. It gives a grasp to the masses of what machine learning and AI is. Though it does not explain the difference at all. Far from boring with a good suspense all along. I down rated it because it misses to mention a very important set of information: The power that was consumed by AlphaGo: Wikipedia mentions information shared by The Economist: 1920 CPUs and almost 300 GPUs. It would have been much more contrasted to discuss this massive computing power used to challenge Lee Segol , one of the world's best Go players. While we see him quite upset by the outcome, it would have been really respectful to share about that computing power and the related energy that was consumed by the software versus his human brain! Surely AI is way LESS efficient than his brain. I don't know if this was overlooked by the director voluntarily or not. I don't know either who finance this movie. What we know is that this feature ends up being a massive advertising for DeepMind (a Google company). Maybe they helped finance it and possibly had influencing powers to the ultimate story told...
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