ai, Niantic and Pokémon Go

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.
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,
Niantic is quietly using your Pokémon Go data to train large-scale geospatial AI models
Niantic is making geospatial AI models to help computers navigate real spaces, and it’s using your Pokémon Go data to help
‘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
Pokemon Go developer Niantic reveals its long-term use of player data in the creation of a new large geospatial AI model.
‘Pokémon Go’ Players Have Unknowingly Trained Niantic’s AI Model To Make A Robot Uprising Easier
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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 Used Pokemon Go Players To Create Real-World AI Navigation Model
While you were catching all of the Pokemon, Niantic was using AI to capture the world around you for its navigation model.
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 navigate physical space. Some experts are worried about the potential applications.
'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),
Pokemon Go Uesd Data to Train AI According To Developer Niantic
Pokemon GO developer Niantic has revealed that they used player data from the popular mobile game to help build their large geospatial model. Released in 2016 and taking the world by storm, Pokemon GO is a popular mobile version of the iconic Pokemon series.
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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.