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"AlphaGo" screens Thursday at American Film Institute; volunteers wanted

Members of the National Go Center will provide a go demonstration at this Thursday's screening of "AlphaGo" at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD. The demo starts at 6:15p, and the screening begins at 7:15p. If you're interested in participating in the demo, contact Outreach Coordinator Patrick Sun; all volunteers receive a free pass to the movie. Dr. Benjamin Bengfort, data scientist at PingThings will introduce the absorbing documentary, which chronicles Google's DeepMind team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly evolving AI technology against one of the top professional go players in the world.