AlphaGo's Move 37 was AI's first genuine creative breakthrough
Shaan Puri · The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of · Jan 19, 2026 · at 25:42
Shaan Puri reflects on DeepMind's AlphaGo playing Move 37 against Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016.
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“And in move 37, the computer does something, and right away the announcers are like, oh my. Oh, what is that? And Lisa Dole, you can literally, they show him, like, sweating and thinking, and he's like, what the hell just happened? They go, and they go, I think we might have just seen an original move by AlphaGo. And Lisa Dole is like, just, He doesn't know what to do. He's like, really perplexed by this moment. They go, no human would have made that move. And it was the first time that it wasn't just pattern matching. Like, let's mimic what it, what a human would do or say, but less good than a human would say or do it. Or maybe it's a little bit faster because it's a computer, but it's still doing what a human would do. It was the first time it was like, that was novel. That was a creative breakthrough.”
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