How will we face being defeated by machines?

What can we learn from losing? That’s the question at the heart of the documentary

AlphaGo, about an AI program designed to play the ancient Chinese board game Go. The film follows AlphaGo and its creators, the Google-owned firm DeepMind, as the program defeats first the European champion, Fan Hui, then the legendary player Lee Se-dol. Fan and Lee are forced to answer this question as they’re overwhelmed by AlphaGo’s uncanny play style. And as artificial intelligence imitates more of the qualities we consider uniquely human, their conundrum is an important preview for the rest of us, who may soon be asking ourselves the very same things: What will do when a computer takes our jobs? When we prefer its company to human company? When it makes art we love? How will it feel to be usurped? After Fan’s first losses against AlphaGo at DeepMind’s London headquarters, he goes for an hourlong walk to calm his nerves. He returns and loses again, laughing in exasperation and disbelief. He later joins DeepMind to help train the AI that beat him, and stays in the film as a primary narrator, offering the most open, guileless, and poetic perspective on what takes place. In the televised matches between AlphaGo and Lee in South Korea, he acts as a referee, but it becomes clear he isn’t neutral: he’s an AlphaGo convert.                                                                https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/11/16460118/alphago-deepmind-ai-documentary-go-lee-sedol-film-review