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The fact that Lee Sodol had to do press conferences after his games, and somehow held it together....I have tremendous admiration for this man.

Lee played a 1 in 10,000 move out of intuition. Mad respect

"It seemed like we humans are so weak and fragile, and this victory meant we could still hold on our own" "But winning this one time, it felt like it was enough". My favorite phrases... so powerful.

I’m a 70 year old man. I don’t usually cry on documentaries. But when Lee beat the machine. I had a good cry, I went through just about every emotion on this documentary. What outstanding filmmaking went into this documentary.

Lets be honest, we didn't expect this video to be that good when we clicked.

This may be slightly hyperbolic, but Lee Sedol beating this amount of computing power even once might be one of the greatest accomplishments in human history.

Thank you for 1) no commercials 2) team developing Alpha Go 3) Lee sedol for being him

Lee Sodol being away from the board when AlphaGo made move 37 was such a cool dramatic effect in the film. First the reactions from everyone watching and the experts going bonkers over the move, then the anticipation of seeing Lee coming back from his break and discovering the move. Sometimes you get lucky as a filmmaker!

Honestly, I find it incredible that Lee Sedol managed to learn and adapt to AlphaGo's playstile after playing only THREE games against it, while AlphaGo had to simulate literally millions of games against top players to be able to win this consistently. While it's obvious that AI is far superior, especially in the long run, this really shows how incredible Lee Sedol's brain and human's adaptation capabilities are.

I think Lee Sedol's humbleness, even in the face of a defeat, is absolutely admirable.

I was so surprised to find this gem on RU-vid, no fee, no ads. Such an intelligent and moving story.

I wonder why nobody mentions this: The saddest thing is that in Nov 2019, Lee Sedol retired from professional Go, stating that AI is "an entity that cannot be defeated". From my knowledge, until now, he played very few games of Go in his spare time.

Fan Hui really is the star of this documentary, from heartbreakingly losing to Alpha, to being brought back to help with the AI, to going to Korea with the Alpha team and seeing the project through, he just seems like such a nice guy. Very glad he was in this.

the way Lee Sedol says, "this victory meant we could still hold our own", instead of speaking just about himself, was so selfless and beautiful.

The way everyone reacts to AlphaGo winning in different ways is fascinating. The one announcer laughing in disbelief while the other just seems sad and horrified

That was incredible. I’ve never played Go, I’ve never heard of Lee Sedol or AlphaGo. But this document made me so emotional. Incredible storytelling, all the people there to share their story and comment on the events, it’s just incredible. I was so happy and emotional when Lee won game 4. I want to learn how to play Go now

"I want to apologize for being so powerless" Words of a World Champion

On a side note, credit to Cindy Lee, the editor of this documentary. So well made. The cuts, the jumps, the sound, the emotions, everything. Superb work.

1 in 10000 move = "The God Move" That won the machine. Respect to the man Lee Sodol. And also the Team of Alpha GO .

When I watch this video, Lee Sedol, his hope and dissapontment, his struggles, I saw humanity.

"Move 78", that will be the name of my resistance movement when the machines takes over.

He'll forever be the one who took down AlphaGo. What a legend. There's no need to be sad, this is like being sad that humans can't outrun a car, out swim a submarine, or out muscle a bulldozer. But Lee Sedol beating the A.I. was as if, for a moment in time, we did outrun the Lamborghini, we dove deeper into the depths of the ocean than the Vanguard class sub, and pushed out the modern mechanical beast in a Sumo match. Lee Sedol, you were super human. Fighting!

Fan Hui is such a great man, his choice of words or how he explained his thoughts and opinions is really captivating.

Hi guys. I'm a professional poker player and I don't know a thing about Go, at least before watching this documentary, but I'm being very honest to say that it's very clear that all the team put a huge amount of love and effort in this documentary. I will start playing Go because this is another universe that I want to discover and delight. Thank you guys for this peace of art. I hope that all of you have a wondeful life.

When Lee Sedol said, “If I had played better or smarter the results might’ve been different... I want to apologize for being so powerless.” I really felt that.

Geez. For someone who has never played Go, this documentary was more emotional than I expected it to be. Fan Hui is so poetic with a language that isn't his first language.

Watched this after seeing an interview between Demis and Lex Fridman. AlphaGo and its importance were discussed in the podcast, which brought me here. The dichotomy between the promising, inspiring technology and humanity's last effort to best machines at Go was something I wasn't really prepared for. Very glad I indulged, what a wonderful documentary.

What a monumental achievement this was. A watershed moment for both the game of Go and for computing. And Lee Sodol deserves massive respect; he was such a gracious competitor and gentleman. This was a wonderful documentary and I thank you so much for sharing it.

To be able to have the only win from AlphaGo out of its 74 official games alone is something remarkable. Huge respect to Lee Sedol

I've never heard of alphago, Lee Sedol, or the game go before today. I teared up multiple times throughout this documentary, it's one of the most human things i've ever witnessed on screen.

Many years later this slowly is becoming the most important documentary in our history.

Excellent film. That one line about AlphaGO “feeling nothing” sent chills. Felt like an intuitive warning.

never expected to cry about a computer playing a game I don't even understand

90 minutes ago I didn't know I'd be taking a detour to go through an emotional odyssey. This was truly something to behold. Thank you to the DeepMind team, Lee Sedol and everyone else who made this possible!

Wasn't expecting such an emotional story... Absolute Masterpiece, Loved it.. and feeling inspired by the mentality of Lee Sedol, after being defeated by a machine 3 times with whole world watching, he came back, such a mentality monster... Such an emotional documentary, maybe the best documentary i have ever watched!!

If humanity ever has to rise up against ai overlords in the future, the resistance force should be named "Move 78"

I cried when Lee Sedol finally won a match against AlphaGo. I never thought that a documentary about artificial intelligence will explore such deeply human emotions. Great job!

I shed a tear when he defeated AlphaGo at least once. I am not sure why a game between a man and a machine in a game that I never played before is so emotional to me, but it is something about the human resilence, the bow to never stop trying, to never surrender.

No shame for Lee Sedol that it took an entire team of engineers and professionally played game database to defeat him. It looks like he learned some new insights about the game.

40:21 - The looks on the Korean game commentators faces speaks incredible volumes. The shock of the realization that a human, a revered and admired professional that is so well known, was defeated must have been so overwhelming. They probably felt an incredible sense of humility and doubt never experienced before.

As both a physician and a Go player, the reason this is so significant is b/c the same team that created AlphaGo is using the same technique to solve protein folding (predicting 3D structure of protein simply by 1 dimensional amino acid sequence), which is hugely revolutionary in pharmcology, medicine, and bioengineering.

I lost myself for 90 minutes in this documentary, in the midst of all the COVID19 coverage. Great work!

Did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did. I know I'll be talking about this to my colleagues at work tomorrow. Pretty sure none of them have heard of Go. Really well done documentary.

This was a great movie with a lot of extremely valuable behind the scenes footage and interviews that were wonderful to watch. I teared up multiple times. But there are a few things this movie left out, that I wish it hadn't, which I think it did specifically to drive drama and/or highlight the technical achievements of the deepmind team at the expense of the full picture: 1. Lee Sodol's speech after game 5, which was one of the more heartbreaking speeches I've ever seen in media, where he heartfeltly apologized for failing humanity, and a room full of reporters offered him emotional support. 2. The issues that the movie presents as potential weaknesses alphago had due to its method of training prior to game 1, are things that one would likely have to play against alphago numerous times in order to find. That's why Fan Hui has to play so many times to realize those weaknesses existed. It was unlikely that Lee Sodol would find them in just 5 games, which makes game 4 all the more amazing. 3. AlphaGo had access to study all of Lee Sodol's games, but not the other way around. IIRC: Lee Sodol did not train extensively specifically for this championship, as it was so unexpected that a computer program could play at this level, and even if he had, he did not have access to AlphaGo's games to study from. (Note: a comment below states alphago team didnt train on professional matches) 4. The DeepMind team would later create AlphaGo Zero which was more powerful than AlphaGo, and was completely self-trained, without input from the prior games of its opponents or any human. 5. My understanding (and I may be wrong here), is that it is traditional for players at this level to analyze the game together after the game is over, as a mutual respect / learning tradition. The AlphaGo team didn't do this (to be fair, they didn't have to), but this was partly why Lee was so upset after the first game, and why he brought in friends afterwards to help him analyze. He fundamentally didn't understand the strange style of AlphaGo. Its not like chess, where DeepBlue was just finding better moves, AlphaGo was playing the game differently, and Sodol felt a bit blindsided. 6. After this match (and documentary?), Ke Jie, the current world champion at the time, declared that he would be able to beat alpha go, now that he had seen what it was capable of, and he would not be blindsided by alphago. Ke Jie lost to AlphaGo 0-3, by the time they played each other, AlphaGo was significantly better. 7. 3 years later (and after this documentary), Lee Sodol retired from the game of Go entirely, stating that he no longer understood the purpose of playing, when there were entities that existed in the world that could no longer be beaten. 8. For those of you looking to start playing go, there are multiple alternatives to AlphaGo now, the most popular/strongest probably being KataGo, but because AI plays so differently than humans, it is strongly suggested that you start out playing other humans first, not AI.

To be honest, I had never heard of Lee Sedol until today . Now I will never forget him. You are a Legend Sir.

This documentary is mind-blowing in itself. I never thought I would be so moved by something I know nothing about.

The fact that humans were able to make something like alpha go is incredible. People from even just 30 years ago would have thought it was impossible for AI to conquer things like chess or go, to write texts or even to make art. Instead now we wonder how much more is possible with AI

This was one of the finest documentaries I have ever seen and I do not even know how to play Go. I was thinking that this story is almost mythical in proportion to the sum of the facts, and then I remembered the legend of John Henry, "a Mighty Steel-Driving Man".

"I'm not happy to lose the game, but I'm very very happy for play in the history". Bravo; spoken like a stoic.

What surprised me about this film was how emotional it all was… the guy who was the European Go champion, the Asian players, Lee Sedol, the commentators, the way they were all aware about how a player’s Go playing style reflects his character, the way they all got involved. It was quite touching.

I remember the day I found out Lee Sedol won that one match. I was about thirteen, I think, at a shop with my family eating strawberry icecream. The couple sitting diagonal to us startled me with a shout. "What is it?" I remember another man asking. "Won! (이겼어!)" said the young woman. The Korean language has a tendency to drop the subject of a sentence, but we all knew who had won.

I just keep crying watching this. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! I know they play the music that gets you emotional but it's not just that. The emotions of all the people involved was palpable. This is their life and it matters so much to them. I first cried when I saw the first player, the European champ, lose and take a walk outside to process what had just happened. I felt that. He handled the loss like a champ! And all the programmers have given so much to this. And all the people who love the game around the world, finally get their moment to witness a great breakthrough. And to see the Korean culture brought together by this intellectual game was awesome! But, finally, knowing what's at stake here is beyond what mankind has ever faced before, I feel the emotional gravity of it. I'm 55 years old and this idea of AI, especially in my lifetime, was barely even written about in our science fictions books I read growing up. For it to be happening now is almost unfathomable. I personally believe humans have a divine intuition so if this is truly just a program, then we can beat it. But if God enters into the realm of AI, becomes the force of AI, then it could also be the most wonderful thing to ever happen to humanity, life on Earth and beyond. It's not something to take lightly at all.

I feel Fan Hui 2p is the true hero of this story! He introduces us all the the wonderful game of Go! He gets called, "not a strong player" by Lee Sedol, and still has the humility and acceptance to get on board (no pun intended) with the AlphaGo team to help improve its AI. We see his humanity and love for people, the game, and the AI. It is a combination of what it means to be human; acceptance, the willingness to learn, and truly feel what life is about. In these troubled times I hope we as humanity can all work together in making this world a better place, for All!

1:02:45 "I want to apologize for being so powerless" This broke my heart so much

Never thought that i would be to excited to see winning Lee Sedoul win the single game after losing by 3-0. Greatly amazing work by Alpha Go

My manager recommended this documentary & I must say, it's a great that shows how people always change, adjust stay strong when things get tough

LEE SEDOL said in the press room right after the 5th match, "This is my defeat, not a human race's defeat." It is admirable that he chose Black of his own will in the 5th match, even though Black was usually at a disadvantage. He was not satisfied with the victory of the 4th game, and took on another challenge in the last game.

Sign of a really well-done documentary: someone like me, who can't play go and can only play chess at the most basic level, and who could never understand the scientific and mathematical background to the program, watches it straight through without getting bored for a second.

I can say with a high probability of confidence that this is my favorite documentary.

Lee Sedol and Fan Hui are exceptional human beings with inspiringly resilient and humble hearts. So much respect and gratitude for them both.

This documentary is INCREDIBLE. Seeing everyone lose their minds when Lee finally pulled it off was absolutely beautiful. Even the AlphaGo team seemed thrilled to see him finally get one over. Can't believe I am only just seeing this doc now, this is right up there with my all time favorites. Beats the hell out of a lot of those garbage Netflix / Hulu docs that get churned out right on schedule just like vehicles on an assembly line. IMHO the best documentaries approach their subjects with love and appreciation, this one truly exemplifies that.

Game four and Lee Sedol's God Move will forever be remembered. What a legend. Lee Sedol is the only person to have ever defeated AlphaGo in a game.

Fan Hui's commentary all throughout the documentary gave it a special and invoking kind of feel that you could only feel from a person who was deeply moved by this whole experience. Thank you!

Well worth watching, no comments here could spoil the suspense and emotion of this superbly produced story/documentary. Old style, no hype, not too techie, the best viewing I have had all year. Well done for posting it.

I love how DeepMind kept Fen in the loop and had him come on board. Some would have just looked for a better player rather than someone with his positivity and respect.

I have never been moved by something I know nothing about. By far one of the best documentaries I've ever seen!

That programmer guy was the second rated chess player in the world at age 13, a prodigy, and he stopped at age 14. If he felt he could move onto better things than that, he really is ambitious.

I woke up everyday for my AlphaGo match updates and I knew nothing of the game. I still don't understand it, but I find it so fascinating and realize how difficult it could be to achieve this type of intelligence with this many variables. This documentary made me smile so much to know the behind the scenes aspect of something I was so excited about when it happened live.

The most interesting thing to me is that I was captivated by watching Lee Sedol, his reactions, thoughts, comments... the most enthralling part of this AI documentary was the human aspect.

This human had 0.0007% chance of winning and he took that, if this isn’t inspirational I don’t know what is

I watch this over and over again, it's breathtaking, pure raw emotion. Incredible.

I saw this popping in my feed today. I watched it and was absolutely blown away. This documentary is better than a movie.

Honestly, I have deep respect for Fan Hui, he was such a good sport when he lost to Alpha-Go and he wanted to help DeepMind in finding weaknesses.

“Lee Sedol is very patient, He waits and waits and waits his moment, I feel I see something look like the wolf waits in the forest, in the winter, he’s cold feels very very cold, but he needs patience, but then when moment coming he go out and he attack.” -Fan Hui (speaking about “God Move” made by Lee Sedol in game 4) ABSOLUTE CHILLS!! Fantastic quote and the perfect description of the young man I think we all became fans of!

One of the finest documentaries I have ever seen. What an incredible storytelling, made me so emotional. I've never played or heard of Go, never knew who Lee Sedol was, but take a bow humble legend. Fan Hui's words were captivating. And, kudos to AlphaGo team too. 24.03.24

Amazing how this came together. The very final game where a human beat the best Go algorithm and Lee Sedol was probably the only one capable of doing so. This documentary is a great tribute to the significance of these crossroads meeting for the short duration of one game before they would diverge forever.

1:15:10 is just mind boggling. A human played a move with 0.007% chance. Best part of the whole documentary

Fan Hui has so many romantic quotes 1:02:01 "We are Go player Okay, sometimes in China, in Korea, in Japan we see go like art. We are artists, you know. We play our best for Go... I am in the room. I see Lee Sedol. He wants win. He try everything. It's just we can't. Just it's so..." 1:05:10 "When you play with Alpha Go you feel very strange. Look like you you're all the time naked. The first time you see this you don't want to see because Oh, this is me? Real me? And more and more, you need accept. Oh this is the real me. So, how? Now, how I can do?" 1:06:28 "Lee Sedol is very patient. He wait, he wait, he wait his moment. I feel something, he looks like the wolf. Wait in the forest, in the winter. He cold, he feel very, very cold. But he need patience. But the moment is coming... he goes out to attack."

Hands down one of the greatest videos on RU-vid. It was my X times watching it, I'm so jealous of those who haven't seen it yet

Wow, what an emotional roller-coaster. I actually cried a few times. This is scary yet beautiful.

this guy literally had humanity on his back, what a legend.

Lee Sedol deserves the utmost respect here, not only for his humility and candor, but his amazing skill and creativity as well. Something many will not know or consider, is that by the time of deep blue and kasparov (an age before these games in technological development) there had already been a long history of chess programs and computers. This meant that by the time kasparov played his games, there was a substantial understanding of how computers approached the game of chess. This lead to what was termed "anti-computer chess", a style of playing that took advantage of how a program interprets a game. Kasparov had time to master this style, as well as a meta style to play a computer that was aware of "anti-computer chess" (aka an anti-anti-anti computer chess). Lee sedong had nothing comparable to guide him. With the weight of the world and his pride on his shoulders, he was tasked with innovating his own "anti-computer Go" within only a handful of games against a machine far superior to deep blue. Though he lost the match, his win is something that should go down as legendary. Because he is a legend.

What a great documentary. For the first while I was routing for the machine and then, after Lee lost the first three games, I was routing for him. He is such a generous person and learned so much from AlphaGo. It shows that a machine has an advantage that it does not have to deal with failure and rejection. Very compelling.

When he was about to loose the first game, i absolutley love the honest reaction of the red dress commentator lady. Completley speechless

Lee Sedol will go down in the history as the only Human to have ever defeated AlphaGo in Go Game.

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Because I've been working LLMs (as many of us have started) I have crazy respect for Lee Sedol and the DeepMinds team. The fact that he beat ML program once is quite amazing.

The best documentary everrrrr!!!! I wasn’t expecting to have a mixture of heartbreak and relief and joy! Lots of tears of joy and heartbreak and admiration and sense of yayyyy, humans still are so far the most intelligent beings on this planet. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

10+ nerds, millions of game data,years of making vs one human, still beats AI once, you have made us proud Sir Lee Sedol.

One year later when I watch this documentary again, I still love it. In the last year, I have taken classes of deep learning and reinforcement learning, and start understanding the working principle of Alpha Go. I am actually just offered with a position of machine learning engineer. This documentary has literally changed my career path

What is so amazing about this documentary is that it's about a computer program, and yet ultimately it's about the triumph of mankind. Not just because a man could compete with AlphaGo, but because the program was also conceived by man. I cried watching this...because I was so proud to be a member of the human race!

I have cried only once all my life,while watching intersteller!! But when he said ' once is enough' thats when i broke!!! Outstanding documentry or rather i say journey!!🙌🏼🙌🏼

This whole documentary was very philosophical. The moment when Lee Sedol won the fourth game felt so triumphant. It was amazing and full of feelings.

I have never seen such a deeply moving intersection between technology, spirituality, and art - there is something I cannot yet describe in this film, and I am thankful for it.

I love 52:13 and 1:21:00, as these moments tell us a lot about creativity and intelligence, and how the two are no different. Lee Sedol thought that AlphaGo was simply a probability calculation machine, and the thing is, he is right. AlphaGo does somewhat operate in that way. Yet despite this, so much creativity can still be produced from such machines.

내가 알고있던 모든것이 잘못되었다라고 느낄때 그 좌절감이 얼마나 괴로웠을지 상상도 할수 없지만, 이세돌 선수는 그런것마져 배움의 일환으로 생각하는 큰 사람이였군요. 역시 대단하고 특별한 선수 입니다.자랑스럽습니다.

Fan Hui's commentary and his passion for Go makes this video more beautiful.

"I'm going to do my best to protect human intelligence" What a legendary man you are Lee Sedol

Watching this 3 years after the release and as an AI engineer I can assure that 1:12:05 is pure gold. Massive respect for Lee Sedol and the DeepMind team.

This is the best documentary among what I have ever watched. Thanks for making such a masterpiece.