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It's not just a game. Your Pokemon Go player data is training AI map models.
Niantic's geospatial model is using geolocation data from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing the company's mobile games.
‘Pokémon Go’ Players Are Training AI Models To See The World
Data captured from Pokémon Go and other games are being used to create large AI models that can predict what buildings and other objects look like.
Your Pokemon Go data is training an AI model
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, revealed its ambitions to develop a Large Geospatial Model (LGM), an AI designed to help machines navigate and understand the physical world.
Did you play Pokémon Go? You didn't know it, but you were training AI to map the world
You probably didn't know it, but if you played or are still playing Pokémon Go (there are more than half a million active players ), you were helping train an AI-powered geospatial model that aims to map the world.
Niantic is building a ‘geospatial’ AI model based on Pokémon Go player data
Scans of the world from Pokemon Go and Ingress are the backbone of Niantic’s AI model, which aims to navigate the world like ChatGPT spits out text.
'Pokemon Go' players revealed to have been training game developer’s new AI model
Pokemon Go” developer Niantic announced its new AI model on Nov. 12, created using data players have sent over the years. The large geospatial model (LGM), built using the San Francisco-based studio’s visual positioning system (VPS),
Pokémon Go developer uses its unwitting players’ data to train its latest AI
POKÉMON Go is one of the most popular mobile games in the world, and with a huge player base, it collects a lot of data. While Niantic promises to protect any personal data such as your name,
Pokémon Go trainers have actually been helping train AI, too
Niantic, the team behind Pokemon Go, is working on a new type of AI model that's training on data from its apps.
It Turns Out Pokémon GO Players Have Been Training An AI This Whole Time
In a recent blog post from Pokémon GO developer Niantic, the company has laid out its plans for what it calls a 'Large Geospatial Model', an AI that fills in the blanks for geographical locations that haven't been physically captured in person.
Pokemon GO Data Used to Train Geospatial AI Model
Pokemon Go developer Niantic reveals its long-term use of player data in the creation of a new large geospatial AI model.
Aw, whoops, Pokémon Go users have been training robots to navigate the world
Making us genuinely nostalgic for those days when all that Pokémon Go users were doing was finding corpses and committing crimes, today it turns out that they’ve also been training robots how to, like,
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