This is the full, award-winning documentary AlphaGo, released on Google DeepMind’s official YouTube channel. Directed by Greg Kohs, it follows DeepMind’s AlphaGo program and the 2016 Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, where the system played a best-of-five series against Lee Sedol, one of the strongest Go players in the world.
The film captures both the engineering and the human drama. It shows the DeepMind team preparing the system, the surprise of AlphaGo’s now-famous “Move 37,” and Lee Sedol’s response across the five games, watched by hundreds of millions of people. Go had long been considered a grand challenge for AI because of its astronomical number of possible positions, and the match became a public turning point for deep reinforcement learning.
Unlike the lectures in this collection, this is a documentary rather than a single speaker’s talk, but it is firsthand primary material on its official channel, with the researchers and players speaking for themselves. For a general audience, it is the most engaging way to understand why this moment mattered and what it felt like from inside the room.