10 years of AlphaGo: The turning point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet Kohli

Seoul, March 2016. Two players sit hunched over a 19×19 grid covered in a sea of black and white stones. They are playing the ancient game of Go – a game of unimaginable complexity long thought impossible for a machine to master. On one side is Lee Sedol (Sae Dol), a legendary 18-time Go world champion. On the other, AlphaGo, a neural network based AI system built on a powerful technique called reinforcement learning.

In the blink of an eye, the world changed.

Exactly one decade later, we look back at the match that sparked the modern AI revolution. From algorithmic discovery to the solving of scientific grand challenges like protein folding, the foundation was laid right there on that wooden board.

Join Hannah Fry, Pushmeet Kohli (VP, Science) and Thore Graepel (AlphaGo team & Distinguished Research Scientist) as they unpick the legacy of AlphaGo.

Further watching:

🎥AlphaGo https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y
🎥The Thinking Game: https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ

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