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‘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),
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
Niantic Is Training AI With Pokémon Go Data – For New Gameplay Features
There's certainly opportunity to abuse this tech... but focusing on Niantic may be obscuring the true perils of this technology.
Pokémon Go Players Have Been Unknowingly Training an AI to Auto-Complete the Real World
Pokémon Go developer Niantic is hard at work building and training an AI to essentially be able to auto-complete real-world locations with only a limited amount of information. And it's using data collected by Pokémon Go players to do it.
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It's not just a game. Your Pokemon Go player data is training AI map models.
Niantic, the developer behind the popular mobile game Pokémon Go, announced last week it is building an AI model to map the ...
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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 ...