{"id":6407,"date":"2018-01-03T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2018-01-03T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:25:05","slug":"now-showing-documentary-about-deepminds-alphago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/03\/now-showing-documentary-about-deepminds-alphago\/","title":{"rendered":"Now showing: Documentary about DeepMind&#8217;s &#8220;AlphaGo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/search?q=alphago&amp;jbv=80190844&amp;jbp=0&amp;jbr=0\">AlphaGo<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0looks really interesting:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tq1C8spV_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The documentary, which currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 100% and an IMDb score of 8.5, sees South Korea&#8217;s Lee Sedol (a Go world champion) take on an algorithm in a five match tournament in Seoul. He expects to beat the machine 5-0 or 4-1 at the very least but he loses every game of the match but one, leaving him completely bewildered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On a related note, DeepMind founder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-42511365\">Demis Hassabis\u00a0was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire<\/a> (CBE) for &#8220;services to science and technology\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He said he was &#8220;very proud&#8221; of his team at DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month DeepMind software beat other programmes in chess within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NewImage-3.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NewImage-4.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"358\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8tq1C8spV_g\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via John Lin]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlphaGo&#8221;\u00a0looks really interesting: The documentary, which currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 100% and an IMDb score of 8.5, sees South Korea&#8217;s Lee Sedol (a Go world champion) take on an algorithm in a five match tournament in Seoul. He expects to beat the machine 5-0 or 4-1 at the very least but he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}