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 mo