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For those who missed what happened back then, the AlphaGo Movie is really worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

Not very technical, not about Go tactics either, but it's just a very well-done movie about the people involved.

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I enjoyed it too. Surprisingly good, considering it was basically about a computer program, they managed to make it a human story.

(I wouldn't worry about the criticism from the know-nothings below; I doubt a single one has ever had the slightest involvement in making a film so they're just ignorant loudmouths)

It's a surprisingly engaging movie even if you don't care about Go or AlphaGo. Which is kind of impressive if you ask me. A movie that's worth watching if you don't care about the subject matter.

I found it very not worth watching. It seemed just Deepmind PR. Very little substance, it was just soap opera grade material.

If a person likes soap operas, they could enjoy the movie.

Only on HN will you see a recounting of a massive achievement of humankind dismissed offhandedly like this.

I'd say Zero Dark Thirty was a bad movie about a major and important event.

Calling a movie bad doesn't diminish the original event. It just criticizes the movie itself.

In the long run the development of AI is far more significant than relatively minor skirmishes of American Imperialism.

Eh, the barb about "maybe you like soap operas" wasn't necessary and doesn't do the comment any favors.

In that phrase when I said "you" I didn't mean the person I was responding to. I mean the "general you" - a hypothetical person. I didn't occur to me it could be interpreted differently. I've edited it.

zero dark thirty was pretty good, what was wrong with it?

> tekla 10 minutes ago https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tekla

> Only on HN will you see a recounting of a massive achievement of humankind dismissed offhandedly like this.

I'm not dismissing an achievement of humankind. I'm dismissing the PR piece they put out about it.

Do you struggle to see the distinction?

I’ve seen it twice. It was great. It is a documentary

Sure, I’d like it if they discussed the algorithm and the code but you need to entertain a regular audience.

Same, I've seen it twice. It's all about that moment when they realize that "mistake" and then, it's a "God" move, and they can't believe it. History was made in that moment. They realized computers can have intuition and think like they do.

I started showing people ChatGPT when it first came out, they shrugged, they didn't get it. Most people still don't get how important generative AI is and will be. Eventually, they'll have that moment too.

> I started showing people ChatGPT when it first came out, they shrugged, they didn't get it. Most people still don't get how important generative AI is and will be. Eventually, they'll have that moment too.

I have seen ChatGPT. Until they fix the error rate, I see it as a novelty. A toy you can’t count on nor offload responsibility to.

I use it constantly throughout the day for my work. The error rate is fine; just like talking to a person. You have to assume that they are wrong sometimes.

One difference between ChatGPT and people though is that when they don’t know something, the latter usually just tell you they don’t know while the former makes up BS.

I think you have a circle of highly intelligent people around you. I live in Austin and I have all kinds of folks around me and there are plenty of people that are willing to spew bullshit and back it up. I think it's good to have a barometer for bullshit.

Lmao, humans literally spew bullshit on an hourly basis. People constantly make up or parrot false information whether we realise it or not.

And technically an opinion is not a hard fact and us humans have plenty of opinions.

I'm extremely glad they didn't, it was perfect the way it was. That topic absolutely demanded a humanistic presentation. It's a tragedy in subject matter and tone, not a film meant to educate the viewers about the ins and outs of how AI works. There are plenty of resources for that elsewhere, the team behind this movie did the right thing to treat it with appropriate weight and not try to drown that all out with technobabble.

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