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No Go c / The speculation No Go replaces the concluding remarks of the 2017 film AlphaGo with three updated statements based upon the real world implications of the event which might now act as an alternative lived experience perspective upon the human impacts of integrating A.I. into our lives and culture.
The 2016 Go challenge match between Google Deepmind AlphaGo and Lee Sedol is seemingly being revisited again with new eyes given its early canary in the coalmine analogies for A.I.'s adoption. It now acts as a coda for Benjamin Labatut's latest novel The MANIAC, has been the subject of a recent New York Times article, along with an 8 year anniversary interview with Lee Sedol published by Google Korea.
Given the time that has passed it might be useful to revisit the concluding remarks of the 2017 film 'AlphaGo' reframing what was learned from the endeavor. The original film ended with the below 3 statements each of which positioning the coming advance of A.I. as entirely net positive. It is arguable that with Lee Sedol recognised as the world's leading Go player and Fan Hui as Europe's leading Go player that statements 1 & 2 might well be far more correlation than causation. While statement 3 captures an inevitable bump in sales associated with the man vs. machine tournament the phenomenon was short lived and arguably doesn't present a new found appreciation for embracing human intelligence in the growing light of artificial intelligence.
1. In the two months following the match, Lee Sedol won every tournament game he played.
2. After training with AlphaGo, Fan Hui went on to win the 2016 European Professional Go Championship.
3. As new players discovered the game, a worldwide shortage of Go boards was reported.
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No Go c / The speculation No Go replaces the concluding remarks of the 2017 film AlphaGo with three updated statements based upon the real world implications of the event which might now act as an alternative lived experience perspective upon the human impacts of integrating A.I. into our lives and culture.
The 2016 Go challenge match between Google Deepmind AlphaGo and Lee Sedol is seemingly being revisited again with new eyes given its early canary in the coalmine analogies for A.I.'s adoption. It now acts as a coda for Benjamin Labatut's latest novel The MANIAC, has been the subject of a recent New York Times article, along with an 8 year anniversary interview with Lee Sedol published by Google Korea.
Given the time that has passed it might be useful to revisit the concluding remarks of the 2017 film 'AlphaGo' reframing what was learned from the endeavor. The original film ended with the below 3 statements each of which positioning the coming advance of A.I. as entirely net positive. It is arguable that with Lee Sedol recognised as the world's leading Go player and Fan Hui as Europe's leading Go player that statements 1 & 2 might well be far more correlation than causation. While statement 3 captures an inevitable bump in sales associated with the man vs. machine tournament the phenomenon was short lived and arguably doesn't present a new found appreciation for embracing human intelligence in the growing light of artificial intelligence.
1. In the two months following the match, Lee Sedol won every tournament game he played.
2. After training with AlphaGo, Fan Hui went on to win the 2016 European Professional Go Championship.
3. As new players discovered the game, a worldwide shortage of Go boards was reported.
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