I was awed by the storytelling of man's greatest Go representative initially thinking he is undefeatable vs AI to a progressive Fall from Grace and crushing of his confidence. Just as mankind was feeling hopelessly pitiful versus machine, he and everyone else present then found redemption in the fourth match to squeeze out a miraculous victory by sheer human ingenuity. I almost cried at that moment.
And through this match against the machine he and the rest of the Go community begin to wonder what it even means to be creative in Go. Where the moves he and the rest of the Go community found to be creative, actually just conventional? And the AI moves that he thought were foolish, actually imperceptibly creative and genius? I thought I was watching a documentary about machine learning and AI but instead I found it to be a documentary about humanity.
Perhaps I was most struck by how I could feel both happy and sad at the same time from this documentary. Happy when the arrogant human lost to the AI, but incredibly sad at the same time. Happy that this team of computer science researchers created such a masterpiece, but sad that the Go players who devote their entire lives to Go will never be able to catch up with AI. 3 years after losing to the AI in this film, the Go player retired from Go at the age of ~35y stating that even if he's rank 1 in the world, he will never be able to defeat AI.
And through this match against the machine he and the rest of the Go community begin to wonder what it even means to be creative in Go. Where the moves he and the rest of the Go community found to be creative, actually just conventional? And the AI moves that he thought were foolish, actually imperceptibly creative and genius? I thought I was watching a documentary about machine learning and AI but instead I found it to be a documentary about humanity.
Perhaps I was most struck by how I could feel both happy and sad at the same time from this documentary. Happy when the arrogant human lost to the AI, but incredibly sad at the same time. Happy that this team of computer science researchers created such a masterpiece, but sad that the Go players who devote their entire lives to Go will never be able to catch up with AI. 3 years after losing to the AI in this film, the Go player retired from Go at the age of ~35y stating that even if he's rank 1 in the world, he will never be able to defeat AI.