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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.
Pokemon GO Data Used to Train Geospatial AI Model [UPDATED]
Pokemon Go developer Niantic reveals its long-term use of player data in the creation of a new large geospatial AI model.
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.
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,
Ever Played Pokémon Go? You Helped Train an AI for 'Spatial Intelligence'
Millions of images taken while playing Pokémon Go are being fed into a new AI model that one intelligence analyst warns could be used for AI-powered weapons.
Pokemon GO company uses player data for training AI map models
Niantic, the developer behind the creature-catching game Pokemon GO, announced that it is building an AI map model using player data. Its official website says it’s “pioneering the concept of a Large Geospatial Model that will use large-scale machine learning to understand a scene and connect it to millions of other scenes globally.
'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),
Niantic is building a ‘geospatial’ AI model based on Pokémon Go player data
The blog post explains that “Over the past five years, Niantic has focused on building our Visual Positioning System (VPS), which uses a single image from a phone to determine its position and orientation using a 3D map built from people scanning interesting locations in our games and Scaniverse,
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,
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.
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Gotta Catch 'Em All: How Pokémon Go covertly captured your data for years to train a massive AI model
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been scraping users’ scans of the world to build a model that will help robots ...
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.