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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.
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.
‘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' 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 players have been training a world-faring AI model
Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go, has revealed that users have been contributing to the creation of an AI model. This Large Geospatial Model, as it is being referred to, is designed to traverse 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.
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.
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.
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’ Players Have Unknowingly Trained Niantic’s AI Model To Make A Robot Uprising Easier
Chances are you or someone you know has downloaded and played Niantic's Pokémon Go at some point because the game has been downloaded over 1 billion times
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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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.