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Cannes Lion Grand Prix for the documentary AlphaGo (2016)
This mixes up DeepMind’s 2016 Cannes Lions Grand Prix with the later AlphaGo film. The documentary AlphaGo premiered in 2017, so it could not have won a 2016 Cannes Lion.
Full reasoning
This claim appears to conflate two different things:
- The documentary AlphaGo was released in 2017, not 2016. Tribeca’s official festival page lists AlphaGo as a 2017 Tribeca Festival film and describes it as a "World Premiere" documentary.
- The 2016 Cannes Lions Grand Prix was awarded to Google’s AlphaGo work, not to the documentary film. Hakuhodo’s Cannes Lions retrospective explicitly says that the Innovation Lions awarded Google's "AlphaGo" the Grand Prix in 2016. That is a reference to the AlphaGo project/campaign, not the documentary, which had not yet premiered.
Because the film itself premiered in 2017, the statement that there was a "Cannes Lion Grand Prix for the documentary AlphaGo (2016)" is factually incorrect.
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- AlphaGo | 2017 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca
World Premiere AlphaGo ... 2017 Tribeca Festival ... Documentary ... Director Greg Kohs' absorbing documentary chronicles Google's DeepMind team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly-evolving AI technology.
- Cannes Lions 2023: A look back by Hakuhodo Group jury members | HAKUHODO
Having awarded Google's "AlphaGo" the Grand Prix in 2016, the Innovation Lions at Cannes is known as the category that set off the AI boom that continues to this day.