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 Maker Niantic Reportedly Using Game Data to Train AI Projects
The game's developer, Niantic, detailed a new AI product using geolocated images from all over the world to help robotics understand and interact with physical spaces.
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.
‘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
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.
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.
'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),
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.
‘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.
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 Was A Plot To Use Your Data To Fast Track An AI-Slop Google Maps Competitor
Niantic, the privately-held Pokémon Go app parent company, brought the augmented-reality app to the masses in July of 2016, ...