AlphaGo (the movie)

In place of our regularly scheduled November meeting, we're doing a field trip to a screening of the movie AlphaGo, which the Denver Film Society has somehow secretly managed to bring to Denver. The movie starts at 4:15pm, allowing time for a discussion group afterwards at 6:30pm, organized by The Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry at MSU. The movie is at the UA Denver Pavilions (16th Street Mall between Glenarm and Tremont, on the top level) and the discussion is at the McNichols Civic Center Building, which is a 10 minute walk away (take 15th until it reaches Colfax and cross Colfax). If you need addresses for your mapping program, use 500 16th Street for the UA Denver Pavilions and 144 West Colfax Avenue for the McNichols Civic Center Building. Note: The Denver Film Society does not allow late seatings! Make sure you arrive before show time. Tickets are $12 (unless you are a Denver Film Society member in which case the tickets are $9). Use this link to buy your tickets:

https://secure.denverfilm.org/tickets/film.aspx?id=29671&fid=100

"With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea for an extraordinary best-of-five-game competition, coined the Google DeepMind Challenge Match. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched as a legendary Go master took on an unproven AI challenger for the first time in history."

"Directed by Greg Kohs with an original score by Academy Award nominee, Hauschka, AlphaGo chronicles a journey from the halls of Oxford, through the backstreets of Bordeaux, past the coding terminals of DeepMind in London, and ultimately, to the seven-day tournament in Seoul. As the drama unfolds, more questions emerge: What can artificial intelligence reveal about a 3,000-year-old game? What can it teach us about humanity?"

Starring Lee Sedol as himself, Demis Hassabis as himself, David Silver as himself, Fan Hui as himself, Aja Huang as himself, Cade Metz as himself, Martin Rees as himself, Frank Lantz as himself, Maddy Leach as herself, Nam Chi Hyung as herself, Nick Bostrom as himself, and Master Kwon as himself.